Our Care Services
We provide care services crafted to support you, ensuring comfort, dignity, and independence every step of the way
Personal care is an important aspect of health and social care. It involves providing services to meet the individual’s personal needs. These services are essential in ensuring dignity, comfort, and overall well-being.
Definition of Personal Care
- Bathing and Showering
- Toilet and Continence Care
- Dressing and Grooming
- Mobility Assistance
- Feeding Support
- Medication Management
- Personal Hygiene
Personal care ensures that individuals can maintain a good quality of life even when they cannot perform certain activities independently.
Bathing and Showering
Bathing is an essential daily activity. It ensures cleanliness and promotes personal hygiene. Personal care might involve helping someone get into and out of the bath or shower. It can also include washing their body, drying them, and providing post-shower care like moisturising.
Toilet and Continence Care
Support in using the toilet is another essential aspect of personal care. This can involve help with getting to the bathroom, using the toilet, and cleaning up afterward. Continence care includes managing incontinence products, ensuring timely changes, and maintaining skin hygiene to prevent infections.
Mobility Assistance
Some individuals have trouble moving around due to physical constraints. Personal care often involves helping them get out of bed, walk to the bathroom, or move to a different room. Mobility aids like wheelchairs, walkers, and walking sticks may be used to facilitate this.
Feeding Support
Some individuals may need help with eating and drinking. Personal care could involve preparing meals, feeding the person, or assisting with special dietary needs. Hydration and nutrition are essential for health and well-being, so this aspect of personal care is highly significant.
Medication Management
Many individuals require assistance with taking their medication. This can involve reminding them to take their pills, helping them measure the correct dosages, or actually administering the medication. Ensuring that medication is taken correctly is really important for managing health conditions.
Personal Hygiene
Maintaining personal hygiene is essential for overall health. This can include tasks like brushing hair, washing hands, and general cleanliness.
Benefits
Dignity and Respect
Health and Well-being
Emotional Support
Safety
Personal care ensures that individuals do not put themselves at risk when performing daily activities. For example, helping someone in and out of the bath can prevent slips and falls, which are common in seniors and those with disabilities.
Personal care work can be challenging. Caregivers often face both physical and emotional demands. High-quality personal care requires attributes like patience, empathy, and resilience.
Emotional Strain
Physical Demands
Personal care is a fundamental part of health and social care in the UK. It involves numerous activities that promote dignity, independence, and overall well-being. Our Outstanding personal care ensures that individuals can live comfortably and safely. Training and empathy are key in delivering these essential services effectively. Understanding the scope and importance of personal care features its value in our communities.
Applying Makeup
Bespoke Specialist Care understands that makeup has the remarkable ability to boost confidence and enhance self-esteem. By concealing imperfections and highlighting the best features, it helps individuals feel more attractive and self-assured. The act of applying makeup can be empowering, providing a sense of control over one’s appearance and presentation to the world.
Beyond its cosmetic benefits, makeup serves as a powerful form of self-expression empowering individuals to express themselves authentically.
The process of applying makeup is more than just a routine—it’s a ritual that fosters self-care and reflection. Assisting service-users to apply makeup in the morning can be a calming and meditative practice, setting a positive tone for the day ahead. We believe it can be a moment for individuals to prioritise themselves and enhance their confidence before facing the world.
Getting dressed and undressed
Dressing involves assisting individuals with putting on clothes. This can range from choosing appropriate clothing to actually helping with buttons, zippers, and other fasteners. Grooming includes hair care, nail care, and shaving. These activities help maintain an individual’s dignity and self-esteem.
Oral Hygiene
Poor oral health can have a significant impact on older people’s general health and quality of life. As well as causing pain and making it difficult to speak, eat and take medication, poor oral health is linked to conditions such as malnutrition and aspiration pneumonia. Across England, Wales and Northern Ireland at least 1.8 million people aged 65 and over could have an urgent dental condition such as dental pain, oral sepsis or extensive decay in untreated teeth. By 2040, this number could increase by more than 50%.
Bespoke Specialist Care understands that part of the reason for a decline in oral health in the elderly is a decrease in manual dexterity, which means they aren’t able to effectively remove plaque and food debris. We will support service users and our staff have had appropriate training and are aware of the following
1. Prevention of Common Oral Diseases
Older adults are at a higher risk for various oral health problems, such as tooth decay, gum disease, and oral cancer. Regular oral care can help prevent these issues, which can lead to toothaches, tooth loss, and more serious health complications.
2. Systemic Health Connections
There is a strong connection between oral health and systemic health. For example, periodontal disease has been linked to diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, and other systemic conditions. Good oral hygiene can help manage these systemic diseases and reduce their impact.
3. Quality of Life
A healthy mouth allows the elderly to eat properly, enjoy food, and maintain good nutrition, which is essential for overall health. Tooth loss and other dental problems can lead to difficulties in chewing and swallowing, affecting the individual’s ability to consume a balanced diet.
4. Medication Side Effects
Many older adults take medications that can cause dry mouth, which increases the risk of cavities due to reduced saliva flow. Proper oral care can help mitigate these side effects.
5. Impact on Social and Mental Health
Poor oral health can affect an elderly person’s self-esteem, social interactions, and mental health. Maintaining good oral hygiene can help prevent these issues.
Cultural Sensitivity
Care workers must recognise and respect the diverse values, beliefs, and practices of individuals from various cultural backgrounds to provide tailored care.
Effective Communication
Using respectful language and seeking to understand service users’ cultural practices fosters trust and enhances cooperation.
Individualised Care
Creating personalised care plans that reflect cultural preferences, dietary restrictions, and religious practices ensures that the needs of each individual are met appropriately.
Promote Inclusivity
An inclusive environment, where cultural diversity is celebrated and discrimination is challenged, contributes to better care outcomes and a supportive atmosphere for both service users and care workers.
What is Cultural Sensitivity?
Cultural sensitivity means being aware of and respecting the values, beliefs, traditions, and practices of others. It involves understanding that people from diverse backgrounds may have different ways of thinking and acting. In health and social care, this means providing care that is respectful of, and tailored to, the cultural needs of the service users.
Why Cultural Sensitivity Important?
- Builds Trust: When service users feel understood and respected, they are more likely to trust and cooperate with care workers.
- Improves Outcomes: Tailoring care to cultural preferences can lead to better health and well-being outcomes.
- Enhances Communication: Understanding cultural nuances can help improve communication between care workers and service users
Bespoke Specialist Care Ltd will Adapt our Care
Individualised Care Plans
- Create care plans that reflect the cultural preferences of each individual.
- Include specific dietary restrictions or preferences.
- Note any religious practices or observances.
- Accommodate language needs, either by using interpreters or allignining a care worker.
Different religions and cultures have unique practices. Always respect these. Culturally appropriate care (also called ‘culturally competent care’) is sensitive to people’s cultural identity or heritage. It means being alert and responsive to beliefs or conventions that might be determined by cultural heritage. Cultural identity or heritage can cover a range of things. For example, it might be based on ethnicity, nationality or religion. Or it might be to do with the person’s sexuality or gender identity. Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people have a particular culture. So do Deaf people who use British Sign Language. (CQC)
- Understand key religious holidays. For instance, fasting during Ramadan.
- Be aware of prayer time
- Respect dress codes, like modest clothing for some cultures.
- Have an understanding of religious beliefs and food such as Muslims prohibited from eating pork and Hindus not eating beef.
- Staff will be mindful of cross contamination when preparing food
We have a diverse staff team who have extensive knowledge around different cultures and religious practices. We have staff fluent in many languages including Gujrati, Hindi, Arabic, Punjabi, Bengali.
Managing A Stoma Or Catheter
All(appropriate) Bespoke Specialist Care staff will be confident and competent when caring for someone with a stoma or catheter and will:
- Using the appropriate stoma equipment and changing it regularly
- Encouraging the service user to Eat a balanced diet and avoiding foods that may cause issues such as wind
- Investigating any signs of irritation or infection around the stoma/catherter
- Staff will always follow best practice in their delivery of catheter care including Documenting all procedures involving the catheter or drainage system in the patient’s medical record and Practicing hand hygiene prior to performing catheter care.
BSC options for personal care
Visiting care
Visiting care provides you with someone who visits at set times of the day or even overnight – to provide the support you need at the times you need it.
- Visits from 30 minutes per week
- Flexible care
- Condition-led support
Live-in care
We offer round-the-clock care in the form of a carer living in your home, This offers instant assistance should you need it aswell as being a wonderful sourse of companionship and emotional support. All our live in carers have extra special qualities and emphatic personalities. Matching you to your carer will be done so with great care to ensure compatibility and alignment of hobbies.
If you require ongoing personal care and need support at all times of the day and night, it may be best to have a live-in carer, living at home with you to provide 24-hour care.
