What We Do
CRC Healthcare Personnel also provide high quality home care services for individuals in their own homes.
Personal Care
We provide a person-centred package of personal care, ensuring all your needs are carried out to the standard you require.
Whilst promoting independence wherever possible, CRC Healthcare ensures dignity is always maintained
- Strip wash – Flannel or sponge wash in sink or using a bowl
- Application of creams
- After washing or multiple applications per day as prescribed by doctor or district nurse
- Dressing/undressing – Getting ready for the day or bed
- Grooming – Hair and shaving
- Oral hygiene care – Including dentures
- Incontinence care – Including Catheter care, Stoma care and Incontinence pad changing
- Toileting – Guidance and assistance
- Walking and transferring/wheelchair/walker/cane assistance
- Bed wash – Flannel or sponge wash done in bed
- Shower – Full shower including hair wash if required
- Bath – Full bath
Live-in Care
The difference between live in care and respite or a care home is, the care you will receive will be personal centred and focused on you alone. Giving the service users and family peace of mind.
A live-in care package includes the below:
- Personal care
- Meal preparation
- Medication administration and monitoring
- Out and about
- Housekeeping
Other tasks may include help to meet friends, keep in touch with family or perhaps walk a dog and companionship, and the security of having someone living with you. We ensure that the care worker is matched to the service user needs and requirements.
We do this by introducing the care worker before the package starts to ensure you are happy with the care worker.
We aim to use a paperless care note system, meaning you will have access to care notes online, on demand, 24/7 from where ever you are.
Be it at work or even sunning yourself on the beach, you will have ease of mind that everything is OK by logging onto our system and reading the care notes or contacting your family member through skype or FaceTime, all that you’ll need is internet access.
Dementia Care
We understand that receiving the diagnosis and accepting the changes you are seeing your loved one go through can be daunting, scary and heart breaking all at the same time.
We are here to both support the service user and their families to ensure the service user is able to remain at home with a service that meets their personal needs and support the family.
During the initial assessment, we will sit down together and run through the service user needs, whilst also identifying:
- Triggers
- Things which make them smile
- Daily pattern
- The order in which tasks should be completed. The above may seem minuscule, however they are relevant and necessary when caring for someone with Dementia/Alzheimer’s.CRC Healthcare will provide:
- Care Workers who have experience in dementia/Alzheimer’s
- Staff who have completed dementia/Alzheimer’s training
- Plenty of stimulating activities
- Support with social interaction
Meal Preparation
Care Workers will always offer choices, to ensure your dietary and nutritional needs are fully met.
- Meal and menu planning
- Grocery shopping
- Preparing, cooking and serving meals
- Special dietary restrictions
- Assistance with eating
- Feeding
- Washing and putting away
All our staff are fully trained in food hygiene and prepare food on a cooker, in an oven and in a microwave.
Medication
1.Administer – We will decant the medication from it packaging, give you a glass of water or fluid of your choice and give you the medication to take. Topical medicines will be applied in the prescribed area by the care worker.
2.Assist – We will simply pass you the medication and a glass of water or fluid of your choice for you to take the medication. Topical creams, we will assist by opening it for you or whatever assistance is needed to suit you.
3.Prompt – We will prompt you to take your medication. We will do this by reminding you to take your medication. We can also provide vital assistance in:
- Ordering of prescriptions
- Liaising with chemists with ordering of medication
- Collecting prescriptions
- Liaising with doctors/district nurses and other medical professionals
- Monitoring of medications
Respite Care
Domestic
We can set this up as part of your care package or as a cleaning package on its on to be completed in whatever intervals you request.
- Hoovering
- Dusting
- Sweeping
- Moping
- Laundry (Washing and drying)
- Ironing
- Cleaning
Shopping
Need help with shopping? At CRC Healthcare we can relieve service users and their loved ones from the worry of doing the shopping. We can set up your care package to include daily or weekly shops to ensure you always have what you need, when you need it.
