Live-in Care

Choosing live-in care enables you to retain your independence in familiar surroundings, with the added security of having a live-in carer on hand to assist you throughout the day and night. As well as supporting you with you medical and health needs, live-in care also enriches your life by giving you companionship from your dedicated live-in carer.

Our carers are experienced and highly trained in supporting a number of conditions including:

• Dementia, including Alzheimer’s
• Parkinson’s
• Nursing and Complex Care
• Palliative Care
• Domiciliary Care
• Other Condition-Led Care

When you sign up to live-in care with Myriad Care, we have the following assurances in place to ensure that you are confident about your service:

• A face-to-face care assessment, to understand your needs and you on a personal level
• your skills and abilities
• Care reviews are overseen by our team of managers, to ensure a quality service at all times
• All of our support packages and care plans are created with you in mind, delivering a person-centred practice at all times
• All of our carers undergo our industry-accredited training and selection process
• Regular updates for your family
• Ongoing personal care, such as continence management
• Help with daily tasks, such as washing and dressing
• Running errands

For more than 30 years, we’ve been caring for people in their own homes. We strongly believe that if you want to stay at home to receive care, you can.

To help you decide between live-in care or a residential care home, we’ve compiled a comparison of key points for you below:

Live-in Care from Myriad Care

• Enables you to stay in the comfort of your own home
• Personal, one-to-one 24-hour care from a dedicated carer
• You dictate your lifestyle and routines
• You have freedom of choice for food
• You won’t be separated from your pets or partner

The cost of live-in care is very much dependent on your personal needs. Our prices for round-the-clock support from a carer start from:

• £1,125 per week for a single person
• £1,425 per week for a couple

If you have a caring and compassionate nature and want to make a difference to someone’s life, working for Myriad Care could be the opportunity you’ve been waiting for.

With expert trainers and an award-winning training centre based in Warwickshire, our carer training process is critically acclaimed throughout the care industry and will kickstart your career.

There are many reasons why people choose a live-in carer or support worker. Here are the main ones:

• Staying in your own home in the environment you love the most
• Avoiding change – daily life can stay much the same with that extra support
• Flexible care built around you – your carer helps as much or little as you like
• Keeping the same routines, hobbies and interests
• Companionship, whether it’s sharing meals, watching TV or enjoying days out
• Family and friends can still come and go as normal
• Emotional support – many carers become more like friends to our customers

Live-in carers can help you to complete a wide range of everyday tasks to enable you to continue living in your own home. Offering 24 hour care, a live-in carer can provide services that include:

• Preparing meals and washing the dishes
• Laundry and ironing
• Running errands
• Completing household chores
• Administering medication or regular prompts
• Support with bathing, dressing and toileting
• Mobility support around the home
• Support getting out and about
• Companionship and emotional support
• Feeding, walking and caring for a pet

With a handpicked carer, your life can stay much the same as before. The big change is that you have the dedicated round-the-clock support to make that so.

The idea of welcoming a new person into your home and life may seem a little daunting at first. But we walk you through each step of the way and place so much importance on matching you with someone you feel the most comfortable with and who understands your routines, likes and interests.

One of the main benefits of live in care is that it helps clients and care recipients retain as much of their independence and dignity as possible whilst they safely receive a service tailored to their needs.

With our live in home carers, customers are able to maintain ownership of their homes and stay living in their known environment – which is essential for mental health and wellbeing. With live-in care, you are also able to stay with your beloved pets that provide invaluable company and pleasure. Plus by staying in your home and known environment, you remain within your own community, close to friends and families, neighbours and social events.

All mental illnesses with severe symptoms present a similar range of consequences, which cause significant dysfunction, and require expert monitoring and supervision to keep clients safe, prevent deterioration and treat the condition.

Mental illnesses can also co-exist with physical illnesses or other mental illnesses, substance misuse, personality disorders, acquired brain injuries, dementia, learning disabilities or autism, that increases case complexity and escalates the need for additional support.

The general goal of services with acutely mentally ill clients is to safely manage them in the least restrictive environment that will get them better. Yet, a significant proportion of clients with an acute mental illness will be admitted to psychiatric hospital. The factors that increase the risk of admission include clients being left unsupervised or untreated. Monitoring clients carefully and actively treating their mental illness reduces the likelihood of admission to a psychiatric hospital.

A client with severe symptoms of mental illness who does not consent to voluntary treatment and presents high, unpredictable risks will need admission to psychiatric hospital; care at home or indeed private psychiatric hospital may not be suitable. A client who does not present severe risks or they are manageable at home, is suitable for Claimont’s live-in care rather than psychiatric hospital.

Approximately 6% of clients with mental illness require admission to psychiatric hospital due to severe symptoms associated with significant vulnerability, or risk of self-neglect, self-harm or harm to others.

Claimont offers a live-in home service that expedites client hospital discharge and allows them to continue their treatment at home after hospital admission. Claimont does not have powers to rescind the client’s detention in psychiatric hospital under the Mental Health Act but can support clients at home on Section 17 leave from hospital, if the impression is that they will continue to co-operate with treatment when they are no longer detained.

The level of support delivered by Claimont will depend on risk, client address, budget and personal preference, and will involve either a recommendation for mental health staff to live in or undertake home visits.