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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 28 Home from hospital services services in Gloucestershire.
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.
Agincare Extra Care - Filton
Extra Care or Assisted living housing developments allow for independent living, but with appropriate levels of care. The aim of extra care housing schemes is to help elderly people live as independent a life as possible...
Contact: Agincare Extra Care, Springfields, Bristol, Avon, BS34 7PD.
Bramble Home Care
Care can be offered every day of the week, all year round and our services range from a 30 minute visit to a 24hour live-in carer. Personal Care – for instance if you require assistance getting up in the mo...
Contact: Bramble Home Care, 96 - 98 Stroud Road, Gloucester, Gloucestershire, GL1 5AJ.
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.
Broomfield Care
Do you have to make the difficult decision about a loved one’s or your ability to live independently and safely at home? Are day-to-day tasks, personal care and basic housekeeping becoming more difficult t...
Contact: Broomfield Care, Suite 1 The Business Centre, Innsworth Technology Park, Innsworth Lane, Gloucester, Gloucestershire, GL3 1DL.
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.
Our services
Our mission is to combat loneliness and isolation and support independent living. Please contact us if you need any support. There is great need in the Cotswolds and we would welcome any new volunteers so please contact ...
Contact: Cotswold Friends.
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.
Cae services
Our mission is to be the provider of choice for the provision of quality care services for people in Gloucestershire and Herefordshire. We offer support to those with care needs, their carers, elderly people and people ...
Contact: Crossroads Gloucestershire.
DoCare Ltd
Offers a range of support services in your home to promote independent living. The following provides an outline of the services that we can offer, however we treat each client individually and as such will work with you...
Contact: DoCare Ltd, Griffin Mill, London Road, Stroud, Gloucestershire, GL5 2AZ.
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.
Forest Linkline
Forest Linkline is a 24 hour emergency and monitoring service, run by the Forest of Dean District Council, offering round the clock access to a trained operator, providing you with the reassurance and support you need to...
Contact: Forest Linkline, Council Offices High Street, Coleford, Gloucestershire, GL16 8HG.
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.
Kinetic Medicine Home Care
Our home care and support services offer short or long term assistance in the activities of daily living (ADLs) for adults. You may need our support for a number of different reasons including age related ...
Contact: Kinetic Medicine Home Care, Bissex Mead, Emersons Green, Bristol, Avon, BS16 7DY.
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 - Gloucester
We offer a wide range of services to help support these groups such as: - Companion care and personal care, to support a wide range of needs at home - Nursing for people with neurological conditions - Support for ...
Contact: Prestige Nursing - Gloucester, First & Second Floors, Three Cups House, 5c – 5d Church Street, Tetbury, Gloucestershire, GL8 8JG.
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.