waking night care is becoming an increasing issue for PCT's and LA's

Agincare Live-in Care has noticed that waking night care is becoming an increasing issue for PCT's and LA's especially for people with dementia or suffering restless nights. Agincare can provide a Live-in Care service where most of the care workers active hours take place at night. This is a simple reversal of the traditional Live-in Care model where most care is provided during the day. There are a number of possible benefits of this to you and your clients:

• It can assist where there is an unmet need for a waking nights service.
• It can provide some capacity for double ups (if necessary) in the early mornings and evenings thus helping at two key times of demand for domiciliary care agencies and thereby potentially reducing the cost of day time domiciliary care.
• With one Live-in Care worker providing the service it is reliable, 7 nights per week, with excellent continuity of care.
• It is comparable in price to a waking nights service provided by a domiciliary care agency

All other aspects of Live-in Care remain the same, the main points of these being:

• The price of a package of Live-in Care is based solely on the individual assessment of the client’s needs.
• The Care worker requires a room in the client’s house for sleeping
• A Live-in Care worker is entitled to the equivalent of 2 hours break/day
• The maximum number of ‘active’ hours for the care worker is 11 which, if generally used at night means that only 1 or 2 disturbances can occur during the day
• Live-in Care is purchased in weekly blocks although it can be provided for shorter periods.