Visiting Care

What is ‘Visiting Care’?

Much like domiciliary care, visiting care is a fairly casual care service that tailors support around the wants and needs of a client who is capable of living within their own home yet still requires the odd bit of help here and there. Visiting care is exactly as the name says, as one of our highly skilled and compassionate caregivers simply visits your loved one at their home to assist them with whatever household or personal task they require help with.

As a care service, visiting care focuses on anything and everything your loved one may struggle with themselves, from simply assisting them with mobility around the house to making sure they’re able to still enjoy their favourite meals by utilising their excellent culinary abilities. Thanks to this relaxed approach to care and support, visiting care can be taken advantage of as frequently and for as long as your loved one wants it, which means the visits can consist of daily half hour check ups for more independent clients or a few hours a day for that extra element of companionship.

What does a visiting carer do?

Simply put, a visiting carer does anything your loved one needs a little help with around the house. A full list of these tasks includes the likes of cleaning those hard to reach places, cooking nutritious and delicious meals, assistance using the bathroom and helping with using any medication.

Everything and anything a visiting carer helps with is easily achievable in a consistent manner as well, ensuring that a sense of routine is established to keep your loved one relaxed and assured that the help they need will always be there when they need it. Due to the nature of visiting care the visits, whether they’re sparse or frequent, our caregivers are able to comfortably adapt to your loved one’s own desired lifestyle and schedule, as the tasks they assist with are more often than not achievable in a small amount of time.

The short duration of these visits shouldn’t indicate that our caregivers don’t provide a friendly feeling of companionship though as, most of all, a visiting carer serves as a reliable companion to your loved one’s home as frequently as they want them. Many clients who make use of visiting care frequently say that it’s like having a helpful friend come over to brighten up their day, which undeniably improves their quality of life.

What are the benefits of Visiting Care?

Perhaps the key benefit to making good use of visiting care is the sense of independence your loved one can retain. As the care services provided are essentially frequently checking up on a client and granting them the odd helping hand, your loved one will surely feel that they are still more than capable of caring for themselves in their own home. Of course, should your loved one’s needs increase more assistance can be provided, but should they simply require the occasion bit of daily assistance visiting care can accommodate them and their needs.

Another incredible benefit of visiting care is the reliable sense of companionship. A visiting carer will keep a client well informed of when they’ll be visiting and for how long, so your loved one will always know when to expect a friendly face to be knocking on the door. Despite the potentially short term duration of these visits our caregivers will always take the time to talk to your loved one, thoroughly making sure that they’re feeling okay, asking whether they need any extra help and, simply, chat about whatever’s on their mind.

The standard, short term duration of these visits also serves as an excellent benefit, especially for clients dealing with specific circumstance such as recovering from illness or surgery. The relatively informal nature of visiting care lends itself well to situations where a loved one is capable of taking care of themselves and their homes throughout most of the year, yet require some assistance in the event of a particularly nasty winter or if a doctor advises them to relax and slow down a little at home.

Of course, an additional benefit to visiting care is the flexibility of its services. The eclectic array of support services, ranging from assistance with cooking to a little help getting around the house, means that clients of essentially any physical capabilities can benefit from visiting care. This selection of services and the duration of them, both in terms of how long a carer spends with a loved one as well as how long the services are required, are also incredibly adaptable so they can be used as little or as often as they’re required.

Who is Visiting Care for?

Thanks to the variety of different care services visiting care can offer, visiting care can be utilised for essentially anyone with any needs. Whether your loved one needs a little bit of help with their day-to-day household tasks or would simply appreciate a compassionate companion to frequently and reliably visit them, visiting care can provide plenty of life enriching experiences.

Those who can benefit from it most though are those that are beginning to experience dementia or are starting to recover from surgery. As visiting care can be utilised for as little or as long as it’s needed, those who require assistance on a temporary basis can rest assured that the help they need is available to them on their own terms.

Visiting care can also be used as a precursory step for those worrying about whether they’ll need care later along the road. If you’re worried, or you’re worried about a loved one possibly beginning to suffer from a long-term health issue then making use of visiting care can serve as an excellent means of preparing for any needs later on in life.

What’s the difference between Visiting Care and Live-in Care?

While the variety of distinct live-in care services can offer your loved one an incredibly in-depth level of care, visiting care presents plenty of subtle care services that work especially well for those that are capable of living comfortably within their own homes. Visiting care serves as a considerably effective means of helping clients in the familiar surroundings of their home, yet as opposed to live-in care visiting care is much more of a casual care service.

If you or your loved ones only need the occasional bit of help, or the odd assistance with household tasks on a day-to-day basis, visiting care is more likely to be an agreeable option than live-in care. Visiting care consists of quick and swift visits that offer mild assistance and a sense of reliable companionship, whereas live-in care caters more to those who require help with essentially every aspect of home based life.

Recovering from or suffering from temporary ailments, such as being affected by new medication, adjusting to post-surgery life or needing help throughout the early stages of dementia, is when visiting care is especially effective. The same cannot be said about live-in care, as although the two different types of services offer similar kinds of care and assistance live-in care is usually tailored for specific and particularly strenuous conditions.

Simply put, visiting care is perfect as a deft touch to care service, whereas live-in care offers services that should be discussed and considered if most of a loved one’s day-to-day business requires assistance.

Find Visiting Care in your area

Esteemed Life Care specialises in offering visiting care in Coventry, as we focus on keeping our considerable expertise and skilled caregivers close to home. We’re a family owned and run service provider, preferring not to spread our skills too thin, which is why we solely aim to accommodate everyone within the Midlands and the Coventry area.

The unique and adaptable nature of visiting care means that is is accessible throughout most of the Midlands, and our many compassionate caregivers are always willing to make frequent trips to those who need them. Thanks to this focused scope it’s simple for us to allocate our talented and friendly carers to specific areas of the Midlands and Coventry, so finding caregivers who can provide visiting care is incredibly easy with Esteemed Life Care.

We don’t just pride ourselves on the ease of use when it comes to utilising visiting care, as we strive to offer only the finest level of service possible. Working closely with the Care Quality Commission (CQC) as well as ensuring each caregiver adheres to the standards required by the Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS), we only offer the services of exclusively screened and well trusted carers that can swiftly visit you or your loved ones with a smile on their faces.

What’s the cost of Visiting Care?

As we work on a case-to-case business we here at Esteemed Life Care cannot guarantee any specific costs for visiting care. We hope that after discussing your or your loved one’s needs comprehensively you’ll understand that the exceptional variety of services available require extensive consideration, as we believe that each case should be tailored to include anything and everything one could want from a care service.

Due to adhering to a personalised care service we are unable to give even a vague estimation of costs here, and so we encourage and implore you to discuss our care services directly. Please get in touch with us by calling 0247 771 9580 in order to organise booking a free, non-obligatory care assessment, the likes of which will go through your wants and needs step by step.

Even considering the exceptional level of our care services we aim to provide care and assistance to those who need it at as agreeable a price as possible, one that can be all the more easy to handle thanks to our willingness to deal with social funding. The possibility of taking advantage of social funding is something that we are more than happy to discuss when organising a care assessment directly, though there is easy to access information about this type of funding in our Cost and Funding section.

Our hourly care services

By helping with daily activities, our caregivers enable clients to maintain their normal daily routines. Hourly home care allows clients to use our caregivers on an hourly or as-needed basis. Surrounded by their possessions, pets, and a familiar environment, our clients receive the support they need to enjoy their regular activities and continue living well at home.