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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 28 Home from hospital services services in Kettering.
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.
Carers Sitting Service
Our Carers Sitting Service helps people who care for an older person who lives with them. We are now providing this service to clients where they would like the service and it is safe for us to provide it. Please ...
Contact: Age UK Northamptonshire, The William and Patricia Venton Centre , York Road, Northampton, Northamptonshire, NN1 5QJ.
Extra Help at the End of Life
Age UK Northamptonshire provides care to people in the last weeks of their life, which enables them to remain at home with their loved ones.
Contact: Age UK Northamptonshire, The William and Patricia Venton Centre , York Road, Northampton, Northamptonshire, NN1 5QJ.
Hospital Discharge and Community Team
We offer practical and emotional help following a stay in hospital, focusing on older people who do not have other support, such as family or friends nearby. We can pick up prescriptions and collect groceries or ch...
Contact: Age UK Northamptonshire, The William and Patricia Venton Centre , York Road, Northampton, Northamptonshire, NN1 5QJ.
KGH Support Service
This service improves older people’s experience of being a patient at Kettering General Hospital, especially during busy times. We help patients with non-clinical tasks, ensuring they get the support they need w...
Contact: Age UK Northamptonshire, The William and Patricia Venton Centre, York Road, Northampton, NN1 5QJ.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Marlow House Hospital Referral Service
Imagine what it would be like, following a stay in hospital, to return home to an empty, unheated house, with shopping to be done and bills to be attended to. We can provide support for older people by helping the...
Contact: Marlow House Day Centre, Marlow House, Gold Street, Desborough, Kettering, Northamptonshire, NN14 2NQ.
HomeCare, individual care and support.
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: MegaCare Services, 32 THE BUSINESS EXCHANGE, ROCKINGHAM ROAD, KETTERING, NORTHANTS, NN16 8JX.
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.
Help and support
We can provide advice and services in relation to: living independently with care and support assisted living care villages sheltered housing moving on from hospital paying for care self directed support a...
Contact: Northamptonshire County Council.
Help Leaving Hospital
How do I get help?If you are going into hospital you may need help when you leave to continue to live in your home. If requested, a social worker from Social Services will look into what help you need and decide with you...
Contact: The Adult Care Team, Customer Service Centre, John Dryden House, Northampton, NN4 7YD.