Living with Dementia in DarlingtonFind Out What Help Could Make Life at Home Easier
If someone you love is living with dementia, you may be looking for help with meals, dressing or daily routines.
Explore whether Better at Home can provide the support they need to keep living in the home they know.
Get a Clearer Picture of the Support Available
You may be helping more with getting ready, preparing food or keeping up with household tasks. You may also want the person you support to keep enjoying their interests and doing things for themselves.
Your free home assessment is a chance to discuss both: where help is needed and what they want to keep doing.
Explain what everyday life is like, including any difficulties or concerns. Before care is agreed, you need to know whether Better at Home can meet those needs.
Talk Through the Help You Need
The assessment can cover:
Washing and Dressing
which tasks need support and what the person can manage themselves.
Meals and Drinks
help needed with preparing food, eating and drinking.
Company and Interests
activities they enjoy and opportunities to spend time with someone.
Household Tasks
support needed with shopping, laundry and keeping their home comfortable.
Medication
the help required and any instructions from health professionals.
A Break from Caring
whether respite support could give family carers time for themselves.
Keep Their Preferences Part of the Plan
You want help that takes account of the person you know: their routines, their interests and the things they still enjoy doing for themselves.
At the home assessment, discuss how they prefer to be helped and what makes them comfortable. Your knowledge of their everyday life can help explain those details.
Support is agreed with the person receiving care and recorded in their care plan, so there is a clear account of what visits will involve.
Have More Time to Be Family
When you're helping with meals, dressing and household jobs, those responsibilities can take up much of your time together.
Suitable support can give you less to manage and more time to enjoy being their partner, son, daughter or friend.
Questions About Arranging Support
That depends on their individual needs and whether suitable support can be provided. Tell us about their routine, the help they need and any concerns, so this can be established before care is agreed.
Yes. You can contact us about help with everyday tasks without having a diagnosis. The home assessment explores possible care support; it does not provide a diagnosis.
Tell us what concerns them and what help they would welcome. The home assessment gives them an opportunity to ask questions and take part in discussing their support.
Raise this when you first enquire. The level of support needed must be understood before deciding whether home visits are suitable. Visits do not provide supervision between calls.
Explain the help required and any instructions from their health professionals. Whether that support can be provided must be established first. Any agreed medication support is recorded in the care plan.
Contact Better at Home to discuss what has changed. The support required and whether the service can continue to meet their needs will need to be considered.
Talk to a person
Have another question? Call 07967 742243 to talk it through.
Explore Your Next Steps
Find Out What Help Is Possible
Tell us where more support is needed and what you'd like it to make easier. You can ask questions and arrange a free home assessment to discuss whether Better at Home is right for the person you support.
Ring us on 07967 742243Or email admin@betterathomene.co.uk
Home care in Darlington.