Personal care: assistance with daily self-care to support you to maintain or restore independence. Services may be short term or ongoing, depending on your assessed needs. Depending on your needs and preferences, trained staff can prompt, assist or complete personal care tasks such as:
• showering, sponge wash, oral hygiene
• shaving, grooming and hair management
• dressing, applying compression stockings
• assistance with using the toilet and continence management (including product advice)
• medication monitoring and applying non prescribed creams
• medication management (assisting taking medication prescribed by the Doctor)
• hearing aid and/or glasses management
• assistance with mobility (transfers in/out of bed, chair, toilet etc)
• pressure area care/management
• assistance with eating
• assistance with educating you, carers and family members in relation to personal care tasks.
Staff are trained and skilled in supporting older people and people living with dementia