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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 82 Home from hospital services services in Greater London.
A Perfect PA Limited
A Perfect PA was created on the premise that “everyone needs a little help sometimes”. The company was developed to provide this help - much needed companionship, lots of housework, shopping, paperwork, appo...
Contact: A Perfect PA Ltd, Head Office, P O Box 371, Henlow, Bedfordshire, SG6 9HU.
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.
ADVINIA HOME CARE
Advinia offer a wide variety of services within individuals own homes. This includes support both within the property and out. Services provided include: Shopping Personal Care Getting in and out of bed ...
Contact: ADVINIA HOME CARE, 3rd Floor, 314 Regents Park Road, Finchley, London, N3 2JX.
Home from Hospital
Once you have been discharged from hospital, if you live in the borough of Hillingdon and are 60+, our Home from Hospital Team are there to offer a range of practical support to help you on the road to recovery for...
Contact: Age UK Hillingdon, Harrow & Brent, 120 Craven Park Road, London, NW10 8QD.
Take Home & Settle
If you have been admitted into Hillingdon hospital and are now ready to be discharged, you may be offered our FREE Take Home and Settle Service where one of our support workers will escort you home by taxi. Our team wil...
Contact: Age UK Hillingdon, Harrow & Brent, 120 Craven Park Road, London, NW10 8QD.
Care at home
Whether you require short term, occasional or long term support, we can tailor a care package to suit your needs. Our aim is to help you stay as independent as possible in your home. Our dedicated team of care assistant...
Contact: Age UK Kensington & Chelsea, 1 Thorpe Close, Charles House, London, W10 5XL.
Home from hospital
Did you know without a safe, comfortable discharge a patient is more likely to be readmitted within 30 days? That’s where we come in! Our Hospital 2 Home service is on hand to support patients at Guy’s, St Th...
Contact: Age UK Lambeth, Third Floor, 336 Brixton Road, London, SW9 7AA.
Nightingale Service
A free, short term service for those leaving hospital. Preparing the home for discharge - Help with appointments - Keysafe installation - Help arranging transport - shopping & prescriptions- Awaiting equipment deliv...
Contact: Age UK Richmond upon Thames, The White House Community Centre , 45 The Avenue , Hampton , London, TW12 3RN.
Home from Hospital
We offer practical and emotional support to people aged over 65 on discharge from hospital, post discharge from Sutton Health and Care or from Social Services following a stay in hospital. Our Home from Hospital officers...
Contact: Age UK Sutton, Sutton Gate, 1 Carshalton Road, Sutton, SM1 4LE.
Hospital discharge support service
Supporting the transition home from hospital. This service operates to assist with the transition home following a stay in hospital and prevent re-admission. Our service co-ordinator will initially meet with the re...
Contact: Age UK Wandsworth, 549 Old York Road, London, SW18 1TQ.
Amelia Home Care
At Amelia Home Care, we understand that it is hard to watch our elders age, become frail and perhaps need a helping hand. When this happens, often it becomes too difficult to look after ourselves, parents, a spouse...
Contact: Amelia Home Care, 89 Brook Avenue, Edgware, HA8 9UZ.
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.
Care And Support Shop Limited
Providing quality home care (Personal Care, Domestic Care and Social Care) to adults and children. Both Live-In care and Hourly Care is available. Arranging social activities and holidays Providing special...
Contact: Care And Support Shop Limited, 496a Barking Road, London, E13 8QB.
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.
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.
Clarendon Home Care Ltd
We provide a range of services designed to suit individual needs of our clients We typically provide assistance with Personal Care Meal Preparation Household Support - Cleaning/laundry Companionsh...
Contact: Clarendon Home Care Ltd, 185 Elm Road, Kingston upon Thames, Surrey, KT2 6HY.
Compassion HomeCare
Compassion HomeCare is a specialist Home Care provider covering the Bromley, Orpington and Sevenoaks areas. Whether you need regular day to day care or more specialist 24 hour care, we can tailor a Care Plan to sui...
Contact: Compassion HomeCare, 26 Cowden Road, Orpington, Kent, BR6 0TR.
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.
Cura Care
We provide care for people in their own homes: everything from help with domestic housework to end of life care.
Contact: Cura Care, 30 Heath Road, Twickenham, Middlesex, TW1 4BZ.