Our Homecare Clients

People with physical disabilities have a physical impairment affecting their ability to carry out their daily living needs. Depending on severity, these may be mobility problems, difficulty getting up stairs, requiring adaptations around the home or mobility aids. The physical disability would mean the person needed support from others to perform their daily living functions.

Mental health problems can be very debilitating and disrupting for the person and their families. This could be related to anxiety, bipolar depression, reactive depression, a neurosis or a psychosis. To the person with a mental health problem it can be a severe disruption to their daily living and may require intervention from professionals. Support can be offered following assessment of need by carers who are trained to respond to specific problems and offer assistance to ensure clients can carry out their daily living functions in a way that allows freedom to choose in a dignified and non judgemental manner.

Please see more detail on "Our Services" page, Dementia Services. You can also find more useful information in the Alzheimer’s Society factsheet "What is dementia?"

Carers will support clients who have learning needs. Learning disability is a disorder in which a person has difficulty learning in a typical manner. One of the factors is the brain's inability to take in and deal with information making it hard for the person to learn quickly or in the same speed as someone who is not affected. It does not mean the person is not intelligent rather is affects their ability to do certain things or to work through tasks if taught in a mainstream system. A learning disability cannot be cured but if given the appropriate level of support they can succeed in many areas of daily living.

Acquired brain Injury (ABI) affects cognition, physical, emotional and social functions it is usually caused by accidents or head injury, stroke, lack of oxygen to the brain, (hypoxia) brain tumour. It does not generally affect intellect but as the brain controls how we function, if damaged it can leave the victim with mild to severe problems requiring the intervention of a carer to perform their daily living functions such as washing, dressing, managing continence, mobility, diet and nutrition, skin care and social needs. In short managing bodily functions. This is because of the difficulty coordinating and communicating need and feelings. Whilst the main carer intervention is to meet physical need our carers remember the person centred model of care, their feelings, needs, wants and desires. We aim to establish good communication links and enable the client to lead as high a quality of life as possible.

Support is offered to families caring for loved ones and we endeavour to work together in partnership so that clients feel they are getting the best possible care which meets their needs in a way that offers choice, dignity respect and equality.