COMPANIONSHIP CARE

Disability Care

What is Companionship Care?

Companion care is primarily emotional support and companionship for seniors. The majority of clients are generally healthy and want to remain independent at home. They simply want someone to help out.

It is well known that loneliness has a wide range of negative effects on peoples physical and mental health and these can include: depression, anxiety and even cardiovascular disease and strokes.

Companionship Care Services

Trusted Live-in Companionship Care in Ross-on-Wye

Whatever age you are, loneliness is something that we would all struggle with and it is definitely a problem in our society today.

It is well known that loneliness has a wide range of negative effects on people’s physical and mental health and these can include: depression, anxiety, cardiovascular disease, and strokes. It can cause increased stress levels and make you focus and dwell on things that you wouldn’t normally do, making you feel anxious and sad.

Loneliness is mostly talked about when we think about the elderly. Some people may not have any family, their friends may have passed away, they may not have family living near them, their family may have a busy family and work-life so they can’t spend as much time with their loved ones as they would like to.

Imagine not seeing or speaking to anyone for days or weeks on end, it would make you feel sad and isolated and that is why Total Living Care (TLC) offers a bespoke companionship care service to give you regular social interaction and help around your home if you need it.

Companionship Care with TLC

Companionship Care

Our Companion Care is primarily emotional support and companionship for seniors. The majority of our clients are generally healthy and want to remain independent at home rather than move into care or residential homes. The majority of elderly clients just want to see someone regularly and have someone to talk to and have fun with.

How else can we help?

Our Companion Care is primarily emotional support and companionship for seniors. The majority of our clients are generally healthy and want to remain independent at home rather than move into care or residential homes.

The majority of elderly clients just want to see someone regularly and have someone to talk to and have fun with.
What can your carers do?

Our carers can also help with day to day tasks around the home if needed and these can include; putting the bins out on the right day, helping with letters or correspondence, making sure medical appointments are missed, or just sitting down and talking about the TV programmes they have watched, books they have read, their family or loved ones, or times when they were growing up.

It is well known that even if you haven’t got someone coming into your home daily that just the thought of knowing your carer will be there the next day or in the following days makes you feel less isolated and ensures you look forward to them coming.

Our Companionship carers priority is to make sure their clients are relaxed, feel safe, and are content and secure living confidently in their own home.

Companionship & Maintaining Good Mental Health

Our carers put your own and your family’s mind at ease by providing regular social interaction that promotes the mental wellbeing of your loved one. Stress can be detrimental to your physical and mental health, and loneliness and isolation can often be a cause of stress and anxiety.

When we laugh our bodies release endorphins and these are brain chemicals known as neurotransmitters that make us feel happy as well as being a natural pain and stress reliever. Laughing also reduces levels of cortisol, the stress hormone in our bodies, giving us quick bursts of energy.

Regular laughter makes us feel happy and content as well as reducing stress and anxiety. Our TLC Companionship Carers aim is to have regular and happy social interaction with their clients, promoting their health and well-being.

Our Companionship Care process

Before Companionship Care starts with TLC, one of our care managers comes to your home and talks to you about what you are looking for from your time with our carers. They will assess the level of support you need, along with any activities that you would like to help you with if there are any. This ensures that your care plan is bespoke to you and the things that are important to you. We understand that regular social interaction and retaining independence are key to our clients and this is our main focus when we are planning your companionship care plan.

At TLC, we spend time getting to know you to ensure we match our carers to you. Our matching criteria include; our carers training, qualifications as well as their personality, hobbies, and interests. We understand that someone coming into your home can take time to adjust to so we want to ensure that you have similar interests and backgrounds as a good starting point.

What services does a TLC Companionship Carer offer?

Our carers give companionship and frequent social interaction and fun for their clients. A typical day may consist of:

Companionship and frequent social interaction and fun
Going out for a drive
Playing cards and board games
Attending social activities and events

Going out for a coffee or to a garden centre
Cooking together
Accompanying them to Doctors appointments
Accompanying on days out, short breaks away or holidays

About Us

Every one of our companionship care workers is chosen for their professional, warm, and friendly approach to providing exceptional social care to people that need it in their homes. At TLC, we understand that we can only provide the exceptional companionship care that we do if our carers are matched to our client’s needs and our philosophy of; providing a high standard of individual care with respect and dignity.

All of our carers are DBS and reference checked and we have regular and ongoing review meetings with them, our clients, and their families to ensure they are happy with the care we are providing.

Trusted and monitored by the CQC

Our Care Quality Commission ID is 1-1520389628 and we are rated as ‘Good’ in all areas. Answers to our regular client surveys reveal that 91% of our client evaluations are in the Excellent or Very Good categories.

Where TLC cover

At Total Living Care (TLC) we supply outstanding Companionship Care to clients in England and Wales. We mostly cover the South West, Herefordshire, Monmouthshire, and Powys in areas such as Ross-on-Wye, Monmouth, Brecon, and Bristol, however, our Companionship Care services at Total Living Care are available nationwide for whoever may need our support. Our carers will always give outstanding, effective support, ensuring that you or your loved one stay happy, safe, and content living in their own home. If you feel a friend or a family member may need Companionship Care, do not hesitate to contact us on 01989 562000 and explain their needs. Our team will be at hand to help and provide the care they need.

Our Companionship Carers build strong and happy relationships with the people that they care for and often become lifelong friends.