Different Types of Care

What is Personal Care?

All individuals have the right to expect safe, effective and quality delivery of personal and clinical care. Personal care delivered in the home has the aim of allowing individuals to maintain dignity, comfort and overall health when mobility issues make day to day personal tasks difficult to manage. It can be essential to independent living.

What Does Personal Care Involve?

Personal care and services can include:

• Supervising or helping with bathing, showering, personal hygiene and dressing.
• Providing personal mobility aids and communication assistance for individuals with impaired hearing, sight or speech
• Nursing services, such as catheter care and wound management
• Services aimed at getting back or improving an individual's independence or daily living activities
• Specialised therapy services, such as support for individuals living with cognitive impairment.

Manual Handling Courses & Personal Care 

As there can be a degree of physical work involved in personal care, we recommend a short course in Manual Handling to ensure the risk of injury is minimised.

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What is Domestic Care?

Domestic care is support to improve or maintain a person’s capacity to manage everyday activities in a safe, secure and healthy home environment.

Domestic care can involve assistance with everyday household tasks such as dishwashing, house cleaning, meal preparation, gardening, clothes washing, shopping and paying bills. These services are designed to support clients in keeping their home clean and tidy and contributes immensely to a sense of well being.   A clean and tidy home can make a huge difference to health, safety and comfort and will allow clients to spend more time on activities they enjoy. 

Some domestic care services may include:

• Essential cleaning for example the bathroom, kitchen, laundry, living area and bedroom

• Dishwashing, mopping, vacuuming floors, dusting, changing bed linen, clothes washing and cleaning bench tops, stove tops and refrigerators

• Working alongside and sharing tasks with the client in order to build their confidence and maintain their capacity to be as independent as possible

• Doing shopping and running errands

• Preparing meals

• Keeping an eye on the home to ensure there are no health or safety risks

• Skill development and capacity building, if appropriate