Care At Home
Sometimes care is required around the clock. Either as a temporary measure after a surgical procedure or as an ongoing support. We can be trusted to look after your loved ones as we would our own family.
Some Of The Ways We Can Help You & Your Family
Making A Difference In The Lives Of Our Clients Is Our Passion
Quality Assurance Visitations
Are you sure that the nursing home is looking after your relatives? We will happily send an experienced carer into any facility and cast a professional eye over the place.
Hear From The People Who Have Trusted Us So Far
Client Testimonials
A married couple very much in love, Burt and Joyce were inseparable. We were looking after them for three years. They were able to live together and shared a bed up to the end. Joyce was full of life and constantly talking or providing advice – “Isn’t that right Burt!”. Burt however, was the model of a taciturn man who rarely offered anything to say other than a request for another cold drink. After three years of full time care the time came when we knew Joyce was in very poor health and we all assumed that Burt would have to live on without her. So it was a surprise when Burt told us that his doctor had told him he didn’t have long to live as the cancer, that he had requested be kept hidden from Joyce, had finally reached his internal organs –he was dead inside the month. Burt had only just been taken away by the funeral director when Joyce went to bed for the last time. They shared their funeral as well.
We were first introduced to Howard F when he was diagnosed with terminal cancer. He refused to stay in Hospital and wished to pass away at home in the comfort of his beachfront apartment. Providing palliative care is an exhausting honour for my staff and one that they take very seriously. Keeping the dignity and spirit of both the living and the dying involves both tact, sensitive timing and the ability to deal with the ebb and flow of life and all its’ messy details. Pivotal to this process is effective pain relief, which is a specialist medical subset of skills that we outsource to the best organisations we can find, such as ; St Vincent’s, Karuna and Circle of life. One of Howards last wishes was that we continue to stay there in his apartment unit and provide support for his supposedly frail wife June, a former catwalk model who at that stage was starting to exhibit onset symptoms of age related dementia. Surprising all of us, June kept our staff for a further ten years , eventually requiring 24/7 care after a difficult series of bowel surgeries. Despite her increasing dementia, June never stopped being the lady of the house and always had high expectations of all the staff in terms of deportment, pronunciation and dress standards. On many occasions June called me to subtly request I speak to a particular carer to inform them that their shoes were not a good match for the rest of their outfit. Although exceedingly frail and often confused, June remains a arbiter of taste and style into her mid-nineties and is still very particular about whom she allows into her home.
Richard was another client that we were called in to help with by his interstate Power of Attorney. He had moved into a nursing home and was having some minor difficulties with a few of the managers in his facility. The regular visits by our carers enabled us to intercede on Richards’ behalf and gain some level of satisfaction for Richard. It was lovely to be able to take Richard out for coffees at his long standing local and see his worries recede once he understood that he had someone on his side whenever he needed it. Once the issues were sorted we assumed that Richard would no longer require our visits, however Richard would frequently call us to arrange a visit from one or other of his regular “girls” to pep him up with a bit of a frivolous shopping expedition.