Services

Adults

We provide a very diverse range of care packages ranging in duration from a 30-minute call once a day to 24-hour care, seven days a week. For those needing extra care, a small team of carers is allocated to that client on a long-term basis, undertaking day care, waking or sleeping night shifts, or whatever is needed. Clients have a major say in which carers make up that team. Our services can involve any of the following:

Basic care and/or help with the activities of daily living, such as:

• Prompting or undertaking meal preparation.
• Prompting or administering medication.
• Prompting or assisting with personal care, such as bathing or showering, washing, shaving, dressing, and toileting.
• Light housework, ironing, changing the bed, and so on.
• Local shopping, paying bills, and collecting prescriptions.
• Feeding and walking domestic pets.
• And more ...

Social care, which may entail:

• Taking a client out to a social event, to an appointment, shopping, or just for a drive.
• Sitting at home with a client while the partner or carer goes out.
• Companionship, either at home or on holiday or both.
• Accompanying a client attending college or university classes.
• Assisting a client to participate in home-based hobbies or study.
• And more ...

Complex care, possibly involving clients who need:

• Significant assistance with their mobility.
• Constant or intermittent mechanical ventilation.
• Tube feeding.
• Palliative or terminal care.
• And more ...

We have experience of providing long and short-term care to clients of all ages with conditions such as:

• Acquired Brain Injury.
• Alzheimer’s Disease and other Dementias.
• Cancer and other terminal illness.
• Cerebral Palsy.
• Huntingdon’s Disease.
• Learning Disabilities.
• Motor Neurone Disease.
• Multiple fractures.
• Multiple Sclerosis.
• Parkinson’s Disease.
• Rheumatoid or Osteoarthritis.
• Hiv and Aids.

Children

At Philip Parkinson Homecare, we aim to bring quality childcare into your homely environment. We would like to stimulate your child and help them to achieve their full potential through play and general care.

This could be through a range of activities which may be; reading, writing, drawing, using song bags, singing, using baby signing, playing with sensory toys, treasure baskets or simply exploring the natural environment.

The welfare of your child or young person is paramount to our carers and we can offer special and individual care, support and friendship to both the child and their family.

Our home visiting service helps your child to feel comfortable and secure within their own home. Individual care plans assist the carer in providing consistent relative care, geared towards the child's or young person's wishes.

A key person will be suitably matched to your child who will be responsible for the overall care, however, there will be support workers visiting and providing care within the home to ensure the upmost quality of care is always delivered. We provide a diverse range of care packages ranging from a 30minute call once a day to 24 hour care, seven days a week. Our general services above are just some of the many we offer.

Additionally, extra services focused just for children include:

• Taking a child or young person to social events
• Visiting centres with special needs' facilities
• Sitting and playing at home with a child while the parent/ carer goes out
• Companionship, either at home or on holiday or both
• Taking a child or young person to or collecting from school, youth clubs etc
• Assisting a child or young person in home based hobbies or study
• And more ...

We have experience of providing long and short-term care to children or young people with conditions such as:

• Acquired Brain Injury
• Downs syndrome
• Cancer and other terminal illness
• Cerebral Palsy
• Challenging behaviour
• Learning Disabilities
• ADHD
• Autism
• DMD
• HIV

HIV Adults and Children

At Philip Parkinson Homecare we offer a wide range of services catering for people who are living with the HIV+ diagnosis and AIDS. We are non judgemental, accepting all cultures, lifestyles or ethnicity with the main aim of improving the quality of life for people who are HIV+.

We are aware that this is a difficult subject and can be very daunting which is why we have a Regional Manager designated to deal with all your enquiries, providing reassurance and ensuring that all your care needs are met.

We focus on the quality of life including the control of symptoms taking a whole person approach with a strong emphasis on open and sensitive communication.

Breaches in confidentiality is a particular problem within the health care setting as many people do not get the choice with regards to the disclosure of their status.

At Philip Parkinson Homecare we understand that disclosing your HIV status is a sensitive topic which is why we employ health care assistants who are specifically trained with extensive knowledge and an understanding of the importance of strict confidentiality procedures.

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