Palliative Care
Opening hours
Monday to Friday
09:00 - 17:00
Weekends:
Closed
Initial assessments, care plans, regular reviews, available to the service user and family immediately if changes are required.
Extensive risk assessments, N.A.P.P.I. training for our employees, and having a safeguarding lead.
We offer a variety of care options, including assisted living, memory care, services, and palliative care. Our care plans are customised to meet the unique needs of each resident, ensuring that they receive.
We offer a variety of care options, including assisted living, memory care, services, and palliative care. Our care plans are customised to meet the unique needs of each resident, ensuring that they receive.
We offer a variety of care options, including assisted living, memory care, services, and palliative care. Our care plans are customised to meet the unique needs of each resident, ensuring that they receive.
One of the main benefits of receiving palliative care at home is that it allows somebody to spend their last months, weeks and days in the place where they feel most at ease and safe: their home. This places them in the company of someone they know and trust whilst receiving palliative care. As well as being reassuring for the person receiving care, knowing this can give peace of mind to families and close friends too. Because of this, palliative care and hospice care are often synonymous with each other.
Having care at home instead of a hospital or hospice means less disruption for everybody. Round-the-clock care means that any changes in condition will be noticed and responded to quickly.
Specialist palliative care, tailored to your needs
We understand how distressing it can be to see how a terminal illness is affecting a loved one. That is where we can help; by providing specialist palliative care support so your family can make the most of your time together. Palliative care at home allows you to stay in the place you feel most comfortable, surrounded by memories and the people you love. With the one-to-one support from a compassionate carer who is experienced in palliative care, you can have specialist support whenever it is needed.
Whether you are looking for a full-time live-in carer or intermittent visits from a local care team, we provide a full range of services for palliative care that follows the national palliative care guidelines. Our support covers all aspects of care including personal care, pain management, administering medication, cooking meals and companionship.
We can usually provide fast-track palliative care at a moment’s notice. We frequently work alongside several organisations including hospices, support groups, continuing health care teams and district nurses
This enables us to offer the right level of home care for both patients and family alongside other elements of your care plan. 26 To find out more about our palliative care service or how we can support you, please contact a member of our care specialist team.
We are here seven days a week to talk through your options and can arrange a meeting with a local care manager when you are ready to begin care. Palliative care, synonymous with end of life care, is specialised medical care for people with serious or terminal illnesses such as a type of dementia. The support focuses on providing relief from the symptoms, pain, and stress of a serious illness – keeping you as comfortable as possible.
What is palliative care?
The goal is to improve the quality of life for both the patient and their family whilst reducing the emotional effects of illnesses. While some receive palliative care at an inpatient hospice or residential nursing home, it is becoming an increasingly popular choice to receive care at home. Many individuals want to stay in an environment where they feel most comfortable; it’s often referred to as hospice care at home.
- Personal care and assisted living such as assistance with bathing, dressing, and toileting
- Continence care, whether it is changing continence pads or managing a catheter
- Medication support including prompts or administering medication, even the more complex prescriptions
- Support with pain management
- Help moving around the home, whether it is gentle support or hoisted transfers
- Housekeeping duties such as vacuuming, dusting, changing beds or doing the laundry
- Preparing meals to your tastes, and washing up afterwards
- Running errands to collect prescriptions or food shopping
- Companionship and supporting your independent living at home
The options for palliative care at home
If your usual caregiver needs to take a break, we offer respite live-in
care from as little as three days. We can step in quickly to support you
with emergency care – whether you have been let down by your usual
carer or they are taken ill – we’re here to help.
If you would prefer support visits at specific times of the day – or overnight – your local ST Complete Care branch will provide the right level
of care for you. Our support service ranges from a half-an-hour visit
each week all the way through to several visits a day or nightly support.
One of our expertly trained carers can support you to stay independent
at home, so that you and your loved ones have complete reassurance
that you’re being supported with care that’s adapted to you.
Live-in care, also known as 24-hour care, places a specially trained live in carer to provide support each day according to your requirements.
Carefully chosen based on your personality and care needs, this carer
will live with you at home supporting you with your day-to-day needs.
Your carer will likely become a great friend or companion, helping to promote your independence and help you to get the most out of life with
palliative care.
How quickly can palliative carers be arranged?
With long-term illnesses, symptoms can change very quickly. The need to arrange palliative care can be very urgent, especially if someone is in pain or distress.
We offer emergency home care and in many cases, we can begin arranging care within 24 hours of you getting in touch with us. This is especially useful if your situation does not allow you to plan ahead. If you are currently in hospital or a residential setting, your local dedicated care manager can arrange support that will aid your move back home.
Please call us if you would like to discuss the options. Our team is available seven days a week. In many instances, we can arrange for support to start within as little as 24 hours.
