What Affects The Cost of Personal Care?

What Affects The Cost of Personal Care?

Welcome to your ultimate guide on navigating the complex landscape of home care services.

Our decades-long involvement in the care sector has led to the BBC featuring our insights, our regular liaison with assembly members of the Welsh government, and our numerous awards, both won and nominated, demonstrating our unwavering commitment to excellence.

In this blog, we’re going to talk about what can affect the cost of personal care and how you can manage these costs effectively.

At Living at Home, we understand the importance of receiving personalised care in the comfort of your own home.

Personal care is one of our most in-demand services, designed to help you maintain your dignity, independence, health, and safety.

What Personal Care Involves?

Typically, Personal Care Involves:

• Bathing, grooming, and oral care
• Helping you get dressed and undressed
• Assistance with toilet use and incontinence care
• Helping with movement and transfers
• Ensuring timely medication intake

Our personal care services are tailored to meet your needs, ensuring that you receive the appropriate level of support to enhance your quality of life.

So, What Affects the Cost of Personal Care?

The biggest factor influencing both the quality and cost of personal care services is time.

Understanding how the duration and frequency of care visits affect the overall expense can help you make informed decisions for yourself or your loved ones.

Various factors can impact the amount of time you might need for a personal care call.

At Living at Home, we prioritise ensuring that neither our clients nor our dedicated care professionals feel rushed during these visits.

We make sure you have ample time to receive care in the manner you prefer.

This might include enjoying a cup of tea and a chat before having a shower or taking a more leisurely approach throughout your personal care call.

This approach also allows our carers to provide thorough assistance, properly apply personal protective equipment, and, importantly, complete detailed care notes.

We regularly review our personalised care plans with you and your family to ensure you are receiving the best care possible.

This ensures the frequency and duration of your care visits remain appropriate, allowing us to provide the service exactly as you wish.

Let’s Consider Two Personal Care Scenarios:

Scenario 1 – One of our care professionals visits you for an hour every day of the week.

Scenario 2 – Two care professionals visit four times a day, for forty-five minutes at a time.

Although these might seem like small differences, the impact on cost is significant.

In the first scenario, the cost for seven days of one-hour calls, with personal care provided every day, would total approximately £210 per week.

In the second scenario, if you have serious mobility issues and require two care professionals for safe moving and personal care with four visits a day, each lasting forty-five minutes, the weekly cost would be approximately £1,500.

These examples highlight how the timing and frequency of care visits impact costs.

Funding Solutions

We know home care can be costly, which is why we’ve created this blog to explain cost factors and funding options.

At Living at Home, we believe everyone deserves compassionate, high-quality care.

Our care professionals are here to support you, making care choices smooth and reassuring.

Whether you need a few hours a week or daily care, we’re here to ensure you feel safe and well-cared for at home.

We hope to be part of your care journey, helping you or your loved one live independently at home.

If you’d like to learn more about what’s involved in our personal care services, please visit our Personal Care Services page, call our friendly office team at 01792 588 111, or fill out a ‘Get In Touch’ form on our Home Page.

If you’d like to receive our ‘Funding Options & Guidance for Home Care’ brochure, packed with essential information on how to access funding to help with the cost of home care, please download it here.