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How do different agencies vary in their approach to live-in care?
'Live-in care' typically means the care and support provided by a carer who lives with you in your home.
Are all live-in care agencies similar in their approach?
In your search for live-in care agencies, you'll encounter numerous choices online, and each operates uniquely.
At Paragon Home Healthcare, we have an array of carefully chosen and competent carers who deliver live-in care. They offer care and support throughout the day and stay with you overnight, ensuring round-the-clock reassurance.
Post-Brexit Points-Based System - A Specialist Live-in Care Provider's Perspective
The newly announced UK points-based system post-brexit sets the scene for the current Health and Social Care crisis to worsen.
Live-in care or care work itself is not as highly valued in society as it should be. Caring is a vocation which requires a special type of person with the unique skill set to build the trust needed and provide the care support required
Under the points-based system, all migrants including EU citizens will require permission in advance to come to the UK to work which will be assessed according to the points-based system. At present, Health and Social Care is not included in the Migration Advisory Committee’s (MAC) shortage occupation list for ‘Skilled workers’.
Carers are extremely highly trained and skilled and look after clients who are incredibly vulnerable and in need.
Some clients have had life-changing injuries and are paralysed, requiring highly-skilled care from their carers. Some have complex and advanced Dementia and require support for every aspect of their lives from their carers