Personal Care
Personal care at home in Oxford
Washing, dressing and grooming handled with tact and respect.
Accepting help with intimate tasks is rarely easy. What makes the difference is continuity - the same considerate person each day, who knows how you like things done.
Because your carer is resident, there is time to do things properly: a long bath on a Sunday evening, hair set before visitors arrive, nobody rushing out of the door to the next appointment.
Is this right for you?
Families usually get in touch when:
- Bathing or showering has started to feel risky
- Dressing is tiring or painful
- Continence support is needed, day or night
- Grooming that used to matter is being let go
What help looks like
- Bathroom
- Showers, baths or strip washes, with any equipment provided
- Dressing
- Choosing clothes and managing buttons, zips and stockings
- Continence
- Discreet support and changing, including overnight
- Grooming
- Hair care, shaving, nails and skin care
- Mobility
- Safe transfers using hoists or frames where prescribed
Getting started
- 01
Preferences first
We note routines and any preference for a female carer.
- 02
Equipment check
We look at bathroom safety and any aids that would help.
- 03
Carer introduced
Care begins with someone you've chosen.
The Oxfordshire picture
Grab rails, bath lifts and similar adaptations generally follow an occupational therapy visit organised through the county council. For skin integrity and continence products, Oxford Health's district nurses set the approach and our carers work to it.
Questions we're asked
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Discuss personal care with us
Our Littlemore office is open 9am to 10pm, every day of the year.