Posts by Fiona Key

Home care or care home: which is right for your loved one? Home care and residential care both provide support from professional carers. If you’re wondering ‘home care or care home: which is right for your loved one?’, then this blog post is for you. Read on to discover the main benefits and drawbacks of…

Can end of life care be provided at home? Everyone approaching the end of life deserves high-quality, compassionate care. Here at Liberty Private Care, we believe every individual is entitled to receive the standard of care that meets their needs whether that be in a hospital, a hospice, a care home – or even in…

Is home care the best option? When you’re juggling work and family commitments, caring for an elderly family member can become stressful. Care homes have long been the traditional solution but home care is fast becoming a popular alternative. Perhaps you’re now asking yourself ‘is home care the best option?’. To help answer that question,…

Is homecare the best option? Homecare is an increasingly popular way for your loved one to receive professional care while staying in the comfort of their home. It’s a wonderful option if they need extra support around the house but would like to maintain their independence. It can also give you peace of mind, knowing…

I am excited to introduce our new registered general nurse, Amy McCormick RGN, to the role of nurse care manage at Liberty. Our ethos is to redefine private home care and so her role will be to support and provide enhanced care services for all our clients and to bridge the gap between care and…

Our acheivement Liberty Private Care is very proud to announce their recent award of the Six Steps End of Life standard from the Countess Mountbatten Hospice, Southampton, which is a national scheme designed to be delivered to support the organisational change required to support the delivery of quality palliative and end of life care. What…

When providing a new care service to you in your own home there is a process we go through prior to the start of the care to ensure that the services meet your need, and that you are involved and treated with respect and dignity. Once we have taken the initial details from an enquiry…

We know that people are very nervous at the moment about arranging homecare because it means someone coming into your home and in a lot of cases, being close up to you to help with any personal needs, like helping you to get dressed, so we wanted to explain the measures that we have put in place…

Did you know?………. All of our NVQ qualified carers carry equipment with them so that they can take regular observations from our clients. The emphasis here is monitoring, detection, action. We do this by applying ‘RESTORE2’* which is a national standardised response supported by the NHS and Clinical Commissioning Groups for the assessment and management…

At this worrying time, the most important thing that any of us can do to try & protect ourselves & others is to wash our hands effectively.That isn’t a quick flick under the tap, it’s a thorough rub of hand & wrists for at least the recommended 20 seconds – singing Happy Birthday twice to…