Domiciliary Care is health care or supportive care provided by a professional caregiver in the individual home where the patient or client is living, as opposed to care provided in group accommodations like clinics or nursing home. It comprises a range of activities, especially paramedical aid by nurses and assistance in daily living for ill, disabled or elderly people.

Clients receiving home health care may incur lower costs, receive equal to better care, and have increased satisfaction in contrast to other settings.

Occasionally, palliative and end-of-life care can be provided through home health nursing.

Home health nurses may assist patients with activities of daily living such as bathing, toileting, and feeding, or they direct and supervise the aide in providing care. Nurses keep track of vital signs, carry out physician orders, draw blood, document the tasks they perform and the patient’s health status, and communicate between the patient, family, and physician.

What is Domiciliary Care?
Domiciliary care is the range of services put in place to support an individual in their own home. Provided to those that require additional support with day to day household tasks, personal care or any other activity that allows them to maintain their quality of life and independent living.

We provide ongoing support that’s completely built around your needs and routines. It’s one of the many reasons why we’re the nation’s favourite for home care.

Many families are opting for domiciliary care – otherwise known as care at home – because it puts them back in control of the support they receive. With one-to-one personal attention, from 30 minutes a week and up to several visits a day or overnight support, our care plans are completely built around you. You can even opt for a live-in carer living with you at home to provide 24 hour care.

Benefits of Domiciliary care

Independence

The biggest advantage to domiciliary care is that it allows your loved one to retain their independence. Even with care as intensive as live in care, it’s the ability to choose when to eat, to drink, and when to bathe that is so important. The most luxurious care home in the world still has to cater to all of its residents, which means a set schedule, and a loss of independence.

Stability

If you choose domiciliary care your loved one can stay in their own home, which allows them to retain a sense of normalcy, and close to friends and family. Keeping your loved one familiar surroundings is especially relevant if they’re suffering from memory loss or dementia, as a new environment can cause further confusion and distress. It might be that your loved one is in a fragile state of mind. Old age, accident or injury, or ongoing disease can all cause stress, and being in one’s own home can make things a little easier.

Flexible

The nature of domiciliary care is that it’s fundamentally completely flexible to their needs. This means it can be the perfect solution if their needs will change over time. A good example would be post-hospital care or dementia care, when the health of the patient is changing on an almost day-by-day basis.

Affordable

Because domiciliary care is so flexible, you only pay for the care you need, when you need it. Care homes are very black and white: either you’re in, or you’re out. As a general rule, 8 hours or less per day of domiciliary care is less expensive than a care home. And if you choose to opt for live-in care, careers charge by the day instead of by the hour and their rates can be very reasonable.