Light Assistance Care Services at Home
Getting older can bring with it many challenges, including finding it harder to manage day-to-day tasks. Although you may still be able to live independently and enjoy getting out and about, you may feel that you’d benefit from some support with chores around the home, like light housework or pet care. This is where light assistance care services at home can help, providing you with light relief from daily chores that are becoming harder to manage.
At Trinity Homecare, our visiting care services or home help are the ideal solutions for anyone looking for light care services at home, as our carers support can be fully tailored to your bespoke requirements. This ensures you get the help you want and need as and when you need it.
What are light assistance care services at home?
Light assistance care services or home help can help you to live independently in the home you love. The support offered is designed to provide relief from many day-to-day chores that you may be finding more difficult as you age. This could include more personal tasks like washing or dressing or help with meal prep, running errands or a gentle reminder to take your medications.
The beauty of light assistance care services is that you can tailor the support to your exact requirements, ensuring you get help with the daily tasks you are finding more challenging or simply no longer enjoy.
Services provided by light assistance carers
Although the exact services offered by light assistance carers will vary, in general, they can provide support with tasks such as:
- Personal hygiene (like washing, dressing and grooming)
- Medication reminders
- Light meal preparation
- Grocery shopping
- Running errands (like picking up your prescriptions)
- Pet care
- Light housekeeping
- Some general housekeeping tasks (washing, tidying, light gardening)
- Transport to and from appointments or activities
At Trinity Homecare, we can offer light assistance care services through our visiting care services. This enables you to tailor how often you would like to receive support each week as well as the tasks you would like support with.
What are the benefits of light assistance care services at home?
Light care services at home offer numerous benefits for individuals who are still relatively active and want to live independently in the home they love, including:
- Fully tailored to your needs – light care services can be fully tailored to your requirements ensuring you get the help you need as and when you need
- Choose the chores you need help with – from running errands to light housework, light assistance carers can provide support with the jobs you are finding more difficult day-to-day
- Frees you up to do the things you love – whether you want to spend more time with your loved ones or have additional time for hobbies, getting help with chores frees up your time so you can spend it engaging in activities that are meaningful to you
- Improves your well-being – struggling with daily chores can lead to feelings of frustration and overwhelm, lowering your mood, but engaging light care services at home can help alleviate these negative emotions and boost your overall well-being
- Reduces stress and worry – with light assistance at home there’s no need to worry about housework that has not been done or feel stressed about how you’ll find the time to run errands as you can arrange the support you need
- Reduces the risk of trips and falls– general clutter and untidiness can increase your risk of trips and falls around the home, so knowing you have support on hand can help to reduce your risk
- Provide companionship – although light assistance home carers will primarily visit to provide help with specific chores, by popping in at regular times they also offer companionship and a friendly face to chat with, which can help reduce feelings of loneliness and isolation
Who are light assistance care services suitable for?
Light assistance carers can provide support with general day-to-day tasks that you may be finding harder to manage or no longer enjoy performing due to your age.
The care is usually provided at pre-arranged scheduled regular visits throughout the week or day so is best suited to people who:
- Are still relatively active and able to live independently
- Have no complex health conditions or medical needs
- Would benefit from some extra help around the home
If you are finding it harder to manage to live independently in your home or you have existing health conditions, you can still benefit from care at home, but live-in care services or other types of home care may be more suitable for your needs.
At Trinity Homecare, we can support all kinds of people to continue living a rich and meaningful life in the home they love, so no matter what your needs are, we’re confident we can help.
Arranging light assistance care services at home
If you are keen to arrange light assistance care at home for you or a loved one, the first step is to contact your local social services team who will be able to provide a free Care Needs Assessment. This will help establish whether you are eligible for support and what funding options are available to you.
You can also contact private light assistance home care providers directly to see what support is available. At Trinity Homecare, we provide a free no-obligation Care Needs Assessment at your home to help us accurately assess your needs and provide comprehensive details about the support we can provide and the costs involved to ensure you continue to live well at home.
Trusted home care from Trinity
If you’re looking for light assistance care to help provide additional support with tasks you’re finding more taxing, trust Trinity Homecare. For the past 25 years, we have provided the highest standards of care in the comfort of people’s own homes. We understand that deteriorating health and ageing can mean that some tasks can get overlooked and lead to feelings of overwhelm that negatively affect your well-being.
However, we passionately believe that choosing the dedicated support of our carers can help you continue to live a full life in the home you love.
Trinity Homecare is a fully managed care agency with an ‘Outstanding’ CQC rating, placing Trinity amongst the top 4% of all nationwide care companies in England. With this in mind, you can rest assured that your loved one will receive the highest standard of care and specialist support.
If you have any questions about arranging home care, simply get in touch with our helpful and knowledgeable care team.
Arranging nationwide home care with Trinity is straightforward. Simply follow these five steps:
- Call our care team
- Undergo a free, no-obligation consultation to discuss your care needs and arrange a care assessment
- After the assessment, a plan of care is created
- A well-suited carer is found and placed
- Care can be adapted at any time