Residential Care Homes

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What is a residential care home and is it right for me?

Residential care is suitable if you need some help with the activities of daily living (see below) but don’t need the regular intervention of a qualified nurse.

Residential care homes will usually provide you with an en-suite bedroom and this will sometimes have space to sit and read or watch television. Meals are usually taken together in a dining room although some homes will serve meals in your room. Most homes have lounges and other spaces where you can sit, talk with other residents or watch television. They will usually have an activities and entertainments programme as well as trips out.

Each home is different so find out what they offer before deciding where you wish to live.

The Activities of Daily Living

Residential homes will have trained staff to help you with the following activities of daily living:

- Mobility : You may need help getting around the home or someone to walk with you

- Washing : You may need help with bathing and showering. Most homes will have specially adapted bathrooms to make this easier

- Dressing : You may find dressing and undressing difficult

- Feeding : Although your food will be prepared for you, you may need help with feeding yourself

- Transferring : You may find it difficult to get out of one chair and move to another, or get out of bed and move to sit in a chair

- Continence & Toileting : You may find it difficult to manage using the toilet

In the past many of these activities would have been undertaken by nurses. Now they are performed by trained care workers which means that you can live in a residential home. Many of these activities are very personal and staff should always treat you with dignity and respect.

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