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Home from hospital services provide short term practical help for elderly people returning to their home after a period in hospital. These are designed to help people re-adjust to living at home again, gain in confidence, and provide short term practical help after hospital discharge.
The assistance provided can include help with dressing, undressing, and personal hygiene, fetching shopping or prescriptions, going to the post office or bank for you, accompanying you to hospital, GP, optician or hairdresser appointments, liaising with a range of other services on your behalf, providing essential food on the day of discharge from hospital, helping you sort out any paperwork or bills, arranging for furniture to be moved around, offering a friendly chat, encouraging you to take medication, and possibly giving benefits advice.
These services offer after care visiting immediately after discharge from hospital especially for older people who live alone. Home care after a hospital stay services aim to make sure that you can go home and live safely. Home care after a hospital stay services provides time limited services for patients returning home from hospital after illness, surgery or accident. Many elderly people are fit to return home, but need some assistance with personal care and/or other support in the early days of discharge to regain their confidence and strength. At the end of the short term help, people are often able to remain at home without any further help.
A range of different organisations provide short term home from hospital services for older people including health care organisations, local authority adult social care services , the voluntary sector, and commercial home care organisations. Many providers do not charge for the short term help, although commercial companies do charge for their services.
Discharge from hospital should always be planned and arranged by a team which will include, or have links with, Social Services and Health (the Primary Care Trust). Patients and their carers should be given adequate warning of the precise date and time of leaving hospital. There should be contingency planning for Friday afternoon or weekend discharges, and the home of a patient living alone should be properly prepared for their return. A range of services may be provided that will help you recover when you leave hospital. These could be Therapists, Care Assistants or Nurses which can be provided in your own home.
1 - 20 of 26 Home from hospital services services in Bedfordshire.
1st Homecare Solutions Ltd
Home Care services
Contact: Home care, 7a High Street Mews,, High Street, Leighton Buzzard, Beds, LU7 1EA.
Find your closest healthcare team
Our national home care provision for adults and children ranges from respite care through to live-in care; from brain and spinal injuries care to services for clients with dementia; and from complex round the clock life-...
Contact: Advantage Healthcare, Cardinal House , Abbeyfield Court , Abbeyfield Road , Nottingham , Nottinghamshire, NG7 2SZ.
Back on your feet
With our partners at the Luton & Dunstable Hospital, and local health services, we’ve developed a Meet & Greet service for people returning home after a stay in hospital or respite care. Meet & Gre...
Contact: Age Concern Luton, Bradbury House , 39 King St , Luton , Bedfordshire, LU1 2DW.
Domiciliary Care
Almond Care offers high standards of personal care, reliability and friendly service to clients, in all age groups, who are living in their own home and require a little extra help and support and because we genuinely ca...
Contact: Almond Care, Eliot Park Innovation Centre, 4 Barling Way, Nuneaton, Warwickshire, CV10 7RH.
Adult Social Care
We aim to support people to live independently in your own home or where this is not possible, to provide alternative care arrangements that allow you to be as independent as possible.Services provided can include:•...
Contact: Bedford Borough Council, Borough Hall Cauldwell Street, Bedford, Bedfordshire, MK42 9AP.
Reablement
Rehabilitation aims to: rebuild your skills and confidence in doing everyday activities teach you new skills to help you manage at home keep you out of hospital, or permanent residential care, unless this really is ...
Contact: Bedford Borough Council, Borough Hall, Cauldwell Street, Bedford, MK42 9AP.
Get support at home
If you are feeling lonely, please know that you are not alone. The British Red Cross is here to help you. One in five people in the UK say they experience feelings of loneliness, and during the coronavirus pandemic ...
Contact: British Red Cross Society, 44 Moorfields, London, EC2Y 9AL.
Transport home from hospital
If you are feeling lonely, please know that you are not alone. The British Red Cross is here to help you. One in five people in the UK say they experience feelings of loneliness, and during the coronavirus pandemic ...
Contact: British Red Cross Society, 44 Moorfields, London, EC2Y 9AL.
Carewatch
Our mission at Carewatch is to provide high quality care outcomes for vulnerable people who want to live at home, independently. We provide quality, personalised home care services designed to enable our customers to re...
Contact: Carewatch, CSN Care Group Ltd t/a Carewatch, Unit 4, Rankin House, Murdoch Court, Roebuck Way, Knowlhill, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, MK5 8GB.
Adults and older people
We can help you to: • Stay in your own home • Get back on your feet (reablement) • Urgent Homecare and Falls Response Service •&n...
Contact: Central Bedfordshire District Council.
Christies Care Ltd
Dressing, undressing, washing and bathing Care of teeth and hair Assisting with mobility Assisting with feeding Skin and pressure area care Bladder and bowel incontinence Giving or prompting with medication Some...
Contact: Christies Care, Rose House, Street Farm Road, Saxmundham, Suffolk, IP17 1AL.
Live-in Care & Companionship
Country Cousins introduce live-in carers to provide care, companionship and support in the clients own home. They help with meal preparatoin, the running of the home, personal care and escor...
Contact: Country Cousins, Suite 5G Gatwick House, Peeks Brook Lane, Horley, West Sussex, RH6 9ST.
Extra Help Rickmansworth
Extra Help Home-Help Services for the Elderly We provide a helping hand for elderly people who are still living independently and require assistance to manage their daily routines. Our fully screened, DBS checked home-he...
Contact: Rickmansworth, 178 Links Way, Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire, WD3 3RN.
Personal Care for Adults
We provide support and personal care for clients ranging from young adults to the elderly, in their homes or institutions. As we aim to providing/delivering the best quality care that is tailored to suit the preferences ...
Contact: PERSONAL CARE - DOMICILIARY HOME CARE, 2-8 Fountayne Road, London, N15 4QL.
HomeTouch - Live in Care
We know what it takes to make a great live-in carer – warmth, empathy and expertise. Hometouch is one of the nation's leading providers of live-in care. We have no hidden costs and offer free, no-obligation assess...
Contact: HomeTouch, 40 Clerkenwell Road, Clerkenwell, London EC1R 0NE, LONDON, London, EC1R 0NE.
Hub Care Support - Milton Keynes and Bedford
Professional Companionship and Home Help. We are here to help you find consistent QUALITY help/care in your own home! We spend time getting to know you and your individual needs, from a little extra help doing shopping...
Contact: Hub Care Support - Milton Keynes and Bedford, Midsummer Court, 314 Midsummer Boulevard, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, MK9 2UB.
Adult Social Care
Provide care and support services for older people living in Luton. Services provided can include:• healthcare • equipment • help in your home or in a ...
Contact: Luton Borough Council, Town Hall, George Street, Luton, Bedfordshire, LU1 2BQ.
Mega Resources Nursing & Care
The service gives a person access to a variety of care support, whether it be a check visit, medication prompting, assistance with washing, dressing, personal care or help to get to appointments or daycare. It makes a di...
Contact: Mega Resources Nursing & Care, Suite E, 20 Grove Place, Bedford, Bedfordshire, MK40 3JJ.
Ness M Care Services
Ness M Care services employs care staff to live with you and provide 24hr care support in the comfort of your home. All of our care staff are trained to carry out the following tasks and therefore are able to support you...
Contact: Ness M Care Services, 110 Swale Avenue, Gunthorpe, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, PE4 7GT.
Noble Live-in Care
Noble Live-in Care provides one-to-one, 24 hour live-in care and companionship for adults aged 18+, transforming their quality of life and empowering them to be as independent as possible.Noble Live-in Care offers respit...
Contact: Noble Live-in Care, National Provider, 1 Henbury Road ( Head office only), Head office, 1 Trym Lodge , 1 Henbury Road, , Bristol, Avon, BS9 3HQ.