Personal Care in Maidstone

FAQs

• Which towns and postcodes do the Maidstone team service?

  Our office provides care for people at home in the following areas:

  Maidstone, Ditton, Shepway, Snodland, Parkwood, Tovil, Bearsted, Staplehurst, Barnfield, Penenden Heath, Coxheath, Aylesford, Langley Park, Barming, Grove Green, Vinters Park, Loose, Larkfield, West Malling, Downswood, Headcorn, East Malling, Harrietsham, East Peckham, Wateringbury, Linton, Leybourne, Ringlestone, Lenham, Barming Heath, Charing, Sutton Valence, Yalding, Ham Hill, Kings Hill, Eccles, Boughton Monchelsea, Langley Heath, New Hythe, Pluckley Thorne, Ryarsh, Detling, East Farleigh, Teston, Offham, Addington, Chart Sutton, Charing Heath, Eyhorne Street, Leeds, Ulcombe, Egerton, Laddingford, Trottiscliffe, Hollingbourne, Birling, Platt's Heath, Chainhurst, Langley, Forstal, Mereworth, Lenham Heath, Grafty Green, Nettlestead Green, Egerton Forstal, Little Chart, West Peckham, Benover, Dean Street, Collier Street, Marden Thorn, Boxley, Stonebridge Green, Thurnham, Kit's Coty, Lenham Forstal, Kettle Corner, Broomfield, Sandway, Warren Street, West Farleigh, Allington, Marden, Newland Green, Cross-at-Hand, Otham, Red Hill, Friningham, Hunton, Liverton Street, Wichling, Lower Cox Street, Hucking, Little Chart Forstal, Nettlestead, Kingswood, Whitehall, Broad Street, Boughton Malherbe, Leadingcross Green, Westfield Sole, Royal British Legion Village, Pluckley, Monchelsea Park, Rosewood, Imperial Park, Parsonage Place, Bicknor Wood, Stone Abbage, Bletchingly, East Sutton, Pratling Street, Little Culand, Boxley Grange, Abbey Gate, Boarley, Cossington Fields, Harbourland, Pollyfield, The Hernitage and High Noon Farm, Hale Street, Holm Mill, Nettlestead Place, Holborough Lakes, Bletchenden, Little Houses

  If your town doesn’t appear above please check the postcodes below to see if we cover your area:

  ME20 7, ME20 6, ME15 0, ME17 1, ME6 5, ME16 8, ME19 4, ME16 9, TN12 9, ME14 1, ME16 0, ME14 2, ME14 4, ME14 5, ME18 6, TN27 9, TN27 0, ME17 4, ME14 3, ME17 2, TN12 0, ME15 6, ME15 8, ME18 5, ME15 9, ME19 6, ME19 5, ME15 7, ME17 3, TN12 5

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• Is Home Instead Maidstone a locally owned home care organisation?

  Home Instead Maidstone is one of 250 locally owned offices that collectively form Home Instead UK. Together, we care for 16,000 clients, delivering one million hours of home care each month. This unique combination of community-focused local offices and the resources of a national network enables us to provide personalised, relationship-led care while leading research and innovation that is transforming the experience of aging. Our services include companionship care, personal care, specialist care (including dementia, palliative, and Parkinson’s), and live-in care.

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• 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.