Free live in care guide, top things to look for and think about when thinking about live in care
How important is familiarity, live in care promotes independence and choice. Same surroundings, same routine.. This keeps the mind active and strong, keeps your mind clear and able to make choices. Your home, your way!
Choose your carer! If you continue to live at home, you have total control over who looks after you. No worries about who is on shift, will they know your routine, Is it someone new who is being taught, what if you are tired and dont want to get up. Live in eradicates any worries like these which is invaluable.
Choose your carer!
If you continue to live at home, you have total control over who looks after you. No worries about who is on shift, will they know your routine, Is it someone new who is being taught, what if you are tired and don’t want to get up. Live in eradicates any worries like these which is invaluable.
Cost isn’t a factor
We all know care costs money. Good care and sadly bad care costs money. Go with your gut, go with who makes you feel positive about your decision, go with who comes to assess you with answers and who cares and listens. Follow your heart. You already know that live in or residential care can be a costly venture, so go with what you feel and make it worth every penny.
We are all the same!
Regardless of age, or health, young or old. We are all built with the same needs. We all cope better with our own surroundings, our pictures, our memories, right down to where the cushion covers are. Its human nature to need familiarity, its how we recognise home, comfort and most of all its how we feel safe. That need only increases as we get older regardless of our health.
Are you ever too old to make friends?
Statistics show that by the age of 55 the friends we have are friends for life, and apart from work colleagues who may come along its unlikely that we make life long important bonds with new people. This is simply down to habit. We have routines and often are not doing something that would put us in a ‘make a new friend’ situation. Live in carer will become your friend, and that is because you have chosen that person. Friendship is so important for our mental health, sometimes this is the most rewarding part of having live in care.
