Live-in care enables you to stay in your own home rather than move to a care home. Find out how live-in care works at Great Concept and if it could suit you.
Live-in care enables you to stay in your own home rather than move to a care home. Find out how live-in care works at Great Concept and if it could suit you.
Live-in care is when a professional carer lives in their client’s home to enable their needs to be met. This means they are available to help throughout the day and at night, if necessary – although they are obviously entitled to breaks by law. Some carers live in all the time, while others work a rota pattern of, for example, four weeks on, one weeks off.
Live-in care is an increasingly popular alternative to moving into a care home. It enables you to stay in your own home and meet your changing needs. For some people it offers a way of continuing to live as independently as possible at home in their local community amongst friends and family.
Great Concept Live-in care service might suit you if you need help with:
This option is also attractive to people who may become confused by a new environment and find it difficult to adapt to change. This particularly applies to people living with dementia, where continuity, routine and familiar surroundings are very reassuring, important and improve quality of life. Live-in care also provides the supervision that someone living with dementia might need to keep them safe.
You may decide, too, that you only need a live-in carer for a short time, perhaps if you’re recovering from an illness or an operation.
There are over 100,000 professional live in carers in The UK. Who are well trained and have vast experience in supporting vulnerable adults with diverse needs such as dementia, Parkinson, personal care etc. in their homes. These professional carers have experience in working in hospitals, care homes, Live-in care, social services, and community care etc.
It is the aim of Great concept to identify the best of the best amongst these professional careers and connect them with service users and their families on our platform.
It may be very daunting and time consuming to identify the right carer to live in your home and care for your loved one. At Great concept, we make it our duty to help you narrow down the search, matching the right skills of the professional carer to the health and care needs of the service user and their family.
At Great Concept We Understand how uncomfortable it may be at first, allowing an unknown stranger to come live in your house for a specific period of time, we know you may have questions, such as, do they have a criminal record? Are they trained? Etc., at Great Concept, we ensure that any carer we accept unto our platform has already been through an enhanced DBS check for both adult and child workforce. You can find more information on DBS checks at www.gov.uk/DBS, we also ensure that we obtain employment references to verify their employment history, We also obtain proof that they have the right to work in the UK, and then, the professional carers on our platform still have to undergo a face to face interview with our expert recruitment team to ensure that they are right for the job. This is why only about 6% of applicants make it on to our platform. And they still have to go through the final stage with the service user and family who decides after 1 week of trial if you want the professional carer to stay on. We will never impose a career on the service user and their family.
