Personal Care at Home
Asking for help with personal care can feel like a significant step.
The right support should respect your privacy, dignity, preferences and independence.
Hub Care Support can introduce you to independent, QCAS-approved Personal Assistants who may be able to provide personal care and everyday support in your own home.
You can review suitable profiles, speak with the people you are interested in and choose someone you feel comfortable with.
What is personal care?
Personal care means support with private, everyday tasks that someone may find difficult to manage independently.
This may be because of age, disability, illness, reduced mobility, recovery from hospital treatment or a change in personal circumstances.
Depending on your needs and the Personal Assistant you choose, personal care may include support with:
- washing, bathing or showering
- dressing and undressing
- oral care
- hair and grooming
- using the toilet
- continence routines
- getting in or out of bed
- moving safely around the home
- eating and drinking
- agreed morning or evening routines
- maintaining comfort and personal presentation
The exact support provided should always be discussed and agreed directly with your chosen Personal Assistant before it begins.
Common support provided
Personal support built around you built around you
Personal care is not simply a list of tasks.
Everyone has their own routines, preferences, boundaries and ways they like things to be done.
You and your chosen Personal Assistant can discuss:
- what support you would like
- how you prefer support to be provided
- any routines that are important to you
- your privacy and personal boundaries
- when support is needed
- how often visits will take place
- the PA’s hourly rate
- any practical arrangements
You remain involved in decisions about your support and can choose someone whose approach feels right for you.
Supporting dignity and independence
Good personal care should support someone to do as much as they can for themselves.
The aim is not to take over unnecessarily. It is to provide the right level of assistance while respecting the person’s abilities, choices and preferred routines.
Depending on what is agreed, a Personal Assistant may support someone to:
remain living at home
feel more confident with daily routines
maintain personal hygiene and comfort
prepare for the day or settle in the evening
move around the home more safely
continue making decisions about their own life