
Personal Care Assistance at home
With Home Instead you can feel confident that our Care Professionals will assist with your care and support needs discreetly and with dignity.
What does a Personal Care service involve?
At Home Instead, our personal care assistance services ensure that care and support is provided with dignity and a commitment to enabling you or your loved one to be independent. We understand that having support with daily living such as bathing or dressing can make a difference in your quality of life, helping you to stay happy at home.
We understand that everyone is unique, so we ensure that support with personal care is tailored to you. We will work with you or your loved one to put together a detailed person-centred plan that our Care Professionals will follow, so that you or your loved one gets the care and support needed, in the way that you want it.
Personal care assistance:
- Is dignified and respectful
- Maintains your preferred routine and lifestyle
- Takes place in your own home in familiar surroundings
- Gives peace of mind that your loved one is being cared for
- Helps families take a rest from caring
- Enables your loved one to remain living at home.

Providing customised care
We understand that it can be an unsettling time when daily living activities such as personal hygiene, dressing and personal grooming become a struggle. It can be difficult to accept help with personal care from our loved ones, particularly those with more intimate or clinical needs.
At Home Instead we say no to one-size-fits-all care. Our Care Professional will be matched with you, will take time to get to know you, and will build a trusted relationship to ensure that your care and support is personal to you and carried out in the way you want, to assist your independence.
Our Care Professionals are highly trained in providing personal care assistance, including support with moving and positioning, helping with medication, mealtime support, assisting with bathing or showering, and continence care. We can also provide support with more clinical personal care activities such as catheter and stoma care, helping you to live your best life at home.

How can we help?
We've helped thousands of families to stay safe, comfortable and happy at home. Whatever situation you're facing, or whatever the question is, Home Instead is here to help.
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Home Instead have an experienced caring team that far exceeds in quality anything we experienced from other agencies at this point of service.
Steve, Client

Home Instead provide first class care. My care professionals are patient, kind and very reliable. I am very happy with the service they provide.
Paul, Client

From day one Home Instead has given us a first-class professional caring service. Office staff and carers very helpful and understanding.
Paul and Sandra, Clients
What we do to care for your loved ones
- We carefully match Care Professionals with clients to ensure a meaningful bond is created.
Home help & meal prep
Keeping the home environment clean, safe, and nourishing with home-cooked meals.Personal care
Assistance with bathing, dressing, and personal hygiene, always respecting the dignity of your loved one.Mobility support
Helping your loved one move around their home safely, including transfers and positioning.Health appointment management
We support your loved one to attend those important health appointments.Community engagement
We enable your loved one to continue to do the things you enjoy, be it a visit to the garden centre or your local art group.Transportation
Assistance getting your loved ones from A to B, whether it be to go visit a friend or help with their shopping.Medication management
Ensuring medicines are taken correctly and on time, supporting overall health.
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We know you want the best for your loved one, so when it comes to arranging home care, we’ve made it easy with personalised, attentive care that adapts as your needs change.
Organising care shouldn’t feel like a trust fall. By taking the time to listen and understand your unique circumstances, we’re confident we can help your loved one live a more independent life at home, while helping you find balance as a caregiver.
From warm and friendly companionship, to specialised, practical care that puts their needs and preferences first, we are changing the way people think about home care.
Whatever questions you would like answered, we’re here to put your mind at ease – with no pressure to make a decision until you feel ready.

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FAQs
- What is personal care assistance?
Physical help given to a person and prompting of an individual to carry out daily living tasks themselves.
- What are the benefits of personal care assistance?
Promoting good personal hygiene helps to prevent illness and the spread of infection. It also helps maintain self-confidence and dignity.
- Why choose personal care assistance at home?
A familiar care professional matched with you provides personalised care and support to you in your own home in the way you want it to be provided.
- How will I know who is providing my care?
We understand that it can be difficult accepting personal care and that is why you will be introduced to your Care Professionals and they will spend time getting to know you before assisting you with your personal care.
- Will I have the same Care Professional?
At Home Instead we ensure that each client has a small team of Care Professionals in place to provide you with care so you can be confident that you will have continuity from the same Care Professionals.
- How do I know my Care Professional is competent?
At Home Instead, we have a robust approach to ensuring that all Care Professionals have regular observations of practice that we call Support Visits, and assessments of competency for key activities such as handling medication or providing catheter care.



