Somerset: Independent living > Home from hospital services services

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.

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Advantage Healthcare Ltd

Find your closest healthcare team

National

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.
Age UK Bath and North East Somerset

Home from Hospital

Local

We provide reassurance and support to a patient whilst they are recovering from an illness or operation, and can work alongside professional agencies, families and carers.We also offer a support service for people in hos...

Contact: Age UK Bath and North East Somerset, 18 Kingsmead Square, Bath, Avon, BA1 2AE.
Agincare

Agincare Home Care - Bristol

Local

The service enables individuals to maintain independence by assisting them with as much or as little home care support that they need on a daily basis. Agincare can provide Live-in Care to enable low, medium or high depe...

Contact: Agincare, Monarch House, Suite 22a Smyth Road, Bristol, Avon, BS3 2BX.
Alliance Homes

Home from Hospital Service

Local

The service is for those who have little or no support available, either formal or through friends and family. We can provide floating support for up to six months if required. Where longer term needs are ...

Contact: Alliance Homes, 40 Martingale Way, Portishead, North Somerset, BS20 7AW.
Aster Group

Aster Group - Connected Living

Regional

Technology Enabled Care will support you in your own home and out and about, giving you reassurance and indpendence to live your life, your way. How does our monitored home alarm work? We offer a range of solutions to ...

Contact: Aster Group - Connected Living, Head Office, Sarsens Court, Horton Avenue, Cannings Hill, Devizes, Wiltshire, SN10 2AZ.

Connected Living - Return Home

Regional

Connected Living - Return HomeGoing home after a stay in hospital can be a worrying time. We can give you the extra reassurance you, your family and friends need, by having our monitored home alarm and pendant.  Kno...

Contact: Aster Group - Connected Living, Head Office, Sarsen Court, Horton Avenue, Cannings Hill, Devizes, Wiltshire, SN10 2AZ.
Bath & North East Somerset Council

Adult Social Care and health

Local

We commission services for older people to help them continue to live independently in their own home wherever possible. Some of the services we commission include:•    Social care assessments &b...

Contact: Bath & North East Somerset Council, Adult Care & Commissioning, PO Box 3343, Bath, BA1 2ZH.
Bright Care Agency

BRIGHT CARE AGENCY

Local

Bright care provides a range of care and support staff and services, including  domiciliary care, supported living, extra care, and continuing  healthcare (non-nursing).  Bright care provides domiciliary c...

Contact: SUITE 3, Badger House, Oldmixon Crescent, Weston-super-Mare, Avon, nn1 5at.
British Red Cross Society

Get support at home

National

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

National

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.
Butterfields Home Care Ltd

Butterfields Home Sevices

Local

What do we offer?    A bespoke care package, tailored to your own personal needs. A service that arrives when you’d like it too and as often as you’d like it to. An exceptionally ...

Contact: Butterfields Home Services, The Manning Suite, Victoria House Victoria Street, Taunton, Somerset, TA1 3FA.
Carewatch Care Services

Carewatch

National

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

Christies Care Ltd

Regional

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.
Country Cousins

Live-in Care & Companionship

National

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.
Focus Care Professionals Ltd

Personal Care for Adults

National

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.
HomeTouch

HomeTouch - Live in Care

National

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

Kinetic Medicine Home Care

Regional

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.
Living Carers Ltd

Live In Care

Regional

​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

National

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.
North Somerset Council

Adult Social Care and health

Local

We help people to live in their own homes for as long as possible. When this is no longer possible we help people to choose a good quality care home.We support unpaid carers in various ways, for example by providing trai...

Contact: North Somerset Council.
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