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Home from hospital services provide short term practical help for elderly people returning to their home after a period in hospital. These are designed to help people re-adjust to living at home again, gain in confidence, and provide short term practical help after hospital discharge.
The assistance provided can include help with dressing, undressing, and personal hygiene, fetching shopping or prescriptions, going to the post office or bank for you, accompanying you to hospital, GP, optician or hairdresser appointments, liaising with a range of other services on your behalf, providing essential food on the day of discharge from hospital, helping you sort out any paperwork or bills, arranging for furniture to be moved around, offering a friendly chat, encouraging you to take medication, and possibly giving benefits advice.
These services offer after care visiting immediately after discharge from hospital especially for older people who live alone. Home care after a hospital stay services aim to make sure that you can go home and live safely. Home care after a hospital stay services provides time limited services for patients returning home from hospital after illness, surgery or accident. Many elderly people are fit to return home, but need some assistance with personal care and/or other support in the early days of discharge to regain their confidence and strength. At the end of the short term help, people are often able to remain at home without any further help.
A range of different organisations provide short term home from hospital services for older people including health care organisations, local authority adult social care services , the voluntary sector, and commercial home care organisations. Many providers do not charge for the short term help, although commercial companies do charge for their services.
Discharge from hospital should always be planned and arranged by a team which will include, or have links with, Social Services and Health (the Primary Care Trust). Patients and their carers should be given adequate warning of the precise date and time of leaving hospital. There should be contingency planning for Friday afternoon or weekend discharges, and the home of a patient living alone should be properly prepared for their return. A range of services may be provided that will help you recover when you leave hospital. These could be Therapists, Care Assistants or Nurses which can be provided in your own home.
1 - 20 of 24 Home from hospital services services in Devon.
Find your closest healthcare team
Our national home care provision for adults and children ranges from respite care through to live-in care; from brain and spinal injuries care to services for clients with dementia; and from complex round the clock life-...
Contact: Advantage Healthcare, Cardinal House , Abbeyfield Court , Abbeyfield Road , Nottingham , Nottinghamshire, NG7 2SZ.
Other Services
Shopping service for the housebound - Support for those caring for elderly people - Short-term voluntary support to older people aged following a recent stay in hospital, or residential rehabilitation - Te...
Contact: Age Concern - Barnstaple & District, 1 Litchdon Street, Barnstaple, Devon, EX32 8ND.
Hospital to Home
Age UK Exeter have co-ordinators working in The Royal Devon University Healthcare Foundation Trust, as part of the Acute Care of the Elderly (ACE) Team currently based on Capener ward. Their role is to offer support...
Contact: Age UK Exeter, The Sycamores , , Mount Pleasant Road, , Exeter, Devon, EX4 7AE.
Get support at home
If you are feeling lonely, please know that you are not alone. The British Red Cross is here to help you. One in five people in the UK say they experience feelings of loneliness, and during the coronavirus pandemic ...
Contact: British Red Cross Society, 44 Moorfields, London, EC2Y 9AL.
Transport home from hospital
If you are feeling lonely, please know that you are not alone. The British Red Cross is here to help you. One in five people in the UK say they experience feelings of loneliness, and during the coronavirus pandemic ...
Contact: British Red Cross Society, 44 Moorfields, London, EC2Y 9AL.
Carewatch
Our mission at Carewatch is to provide high quality care outcomes for vulnerable people who want to live at home, independently. We provide quality, personalised home care services designed to enable our customers to re...
Contact: Carewatch, CSN Care Group Ltd t/a Carewatch, Unit 4, Rankin House, Murdoch Court, Roebuck Way, Knowlhill, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, MK5 8GB.
Christies Care Ltd
Dressing, undressing, washing and bathing Care of teeth and hair Assisting with mobility Assisting with feeding Skin and pressure area care Bladder and bowel incontinence Giving or prompting with medication Some...
Contact: Christies Care, Rose House, Street Farm Road, Saxmundham, Suffolk, IP17 1AL.
Live-in Care & Companionship
Country Cousins introduce live-in carers to provide care, companionship and support in the clients own home. They help with meal preparatoin, the running of the home, personal care and escor...
Contact: Country Cousins, Suite 5G Gatwick House, Peeks Brook Lane, Horley, West Sussex, RH6 9ST.
Adult Social Care
We want to give you the best help and advice to ensure your needs are met and to help you or a loved one live as independently as possible. This might include help with living at home, social care assessments, paying for...
Contact: Devon County Council.
Domiciliary Care , Emergency shift covers
Doves Care Services is a domiciliary care service provider that provides care, treatment and support to the elderly who have substantial difficulties and find it hard to cope with day to day things. As an enabling provi...
Contact: Domiciliary and shift covers for Nurses and Carers, The Acorn Centre, room 2, 5 Oak Court,, Ivybridge, Devon.
Driving Miss Daisy Barnstaple
Driving Miss Daisy is a trusted service offering much more than just transportation. We collect you, drive you to and from your destination and provide assistance as you require in our Wheelchair Accessible Vehicle. We ...
Contact: Driving Miss Daisy Barnstaple, 4 Shorelands Road, Barnstaple, Devon, EX31 3AA.
Personal Care for Adults
We provide support and personal care for clients ranging from young adults to the elderly, in their homes or institutions. As we aim to providing/delivering the best quality care that is tailored to suit the preferences ...
Contact: PERSONAL CARE - DOMICILIARY HOME CARE, 2-8 Fountayne Road, London, N15 4QL.
Helping Hands North Devon Care
We offer help in your home tasks could be cooking, cleaning, personal care etc. We promote health and well-being.
Contact: Domiciliary Care Ageny, Sandcastles Beach Road, Woolacombe, Devon, EX34 7AA.
HomeTouch - Live in Care
We know what it takes to make a great live-in carer – warmth, empathy and expertise. Hometouch is one of the nation's leading providers of live-in care. We have no hidden costs and offer free, no-obligation assess...
Contact: HomeTouch, 40 Clerkenwell Road, Clerkenwell, London EC1R 0NE, LONDON, London, EC1R 0NE.
Live In Care
Living Carers will provide a trained carer to live with you to help you live life as you choose in your own home, enabling you to stay with your husband or wife, garden, pets, familiar circle of friends and neighbours...
Contact: Live In Care (Devon), 5 Newton Court, Bampton, Tiverton, Devon, EX16 9LG.
Noble Live-in Care
Noble Live-in Care provides one-to-one, 24 hour live-in care and companionship for adults aged 18+, transforming their quality of life and empowering them to be as independent as possible.Noble Live-in Care offers respit...
Contact: Noble Live-in Care, National Provider, 1 Henbury Road ( Head office only), Head office, 1 Trym Lodge , 1 Henbury Road, , Bristol, Avon, BS9 3HQ.
Prestige Nursing Limited
We offer a wide range of services to help support these groups such as: Personal care This normally includes help with washing, toileting, dressing, oral care, feeding, assistance with medication and getting up/going ...
Contact: Prestige Nursing - Exeter, 308 Topsham Road, Exeter, Devon, EX2 6HG.
Pure Live-in Care
We provide high quality Live-in Care. Depending on the specific needs of an individual, a Live-in Carer can: ·Assist with getting in & out of bed ·Assist with dressing & undressing ·Assist...
Contact: Pure Healthcare Staffing/Pure Live-in care, 25 Charter Gate Quarry Park Close, Northampton, Northamptonshire, NN3 6QB.
Marylebone Manor Care
Marylebone Manor Care is a newly established home care provider based London and Surrounding areas and proudly registered with the Care Quality Commission (CQC). Our primary mission is to support the local community and ...
Contact: Marylebone Manor Care Ltd , 4 Robert Street , Croydon , Croydon, London, CR0 1QQ.
Red Sails Homecare Ltd
Red Sails provides a live-in care service for clients in their own homes which is tailored to each individual’s needs. We focus exclusively on live-in care which could range from: a few days to a fe...
Contact: Red Sails Homecare Ltd, Suite 133, 89 Commercial Road, Bournemouth, Dorset, BH2 5RR.