Home Care in Enfield Town, EN1 and EN2

Yes, we provide home care in Enfield Town. Our office is in Lewisham, a journey of well over an hour, so here we mostly arrange live-in care, and we take on regular visits only when a carer who lives nearby is free to cover them. Every arrangement starts with a free home assessment by Jackie, our registered manager, followed by a written care plan.

An old market town with stairs to match

Enfield Town has been a market town since Edward I granted a charter for a weekly market in 1303, and the Market Place still sits beside St Andrew's Church and the old grammar school building. The New River winds through the centre, past Gentleman's Row, where some of the houses date from the 16th to the 18th centuries.

For care, the housing matters more than the history. Close to the centre you find Victorian and Edwardian terraces with narrow halls and the bathroom upstairs. Further from the centre, interwar semis take over. The town centre also has flats and some sheltered blocks. Each one calls for a different plan:

• Terraced houses: stairs are usually the first problem. We look at whether a bed can come downstairs, whether a stairlift fits and whether the bathroom can be adapted.
• Interwar semis: there is often a third bedroom, which makes live-in care possible.
• Sheltered flats: visiting care suits them well. Let the scheme manager know that carers will be coming in.

Chase Farm is up the road, but it has no A&E

Chase Farm Hospital on The Ridgeway is the nearest hospital to most of EN2. Its A&E closed in December 2013. It now runs an urgent treatment centre and planned surgery, so after an emergency admission your relative is likely to come home from North Middlesex University Hospital in Edmonton or from Barnet Hospital. All three are run by the Royal Free London, which also runs Enfield's district nursing. If someone needs care to be in place before they can leave a ward, tell the ward staff early that you are arranging it privately, and call us so we can assess. See our hospital discharge support page for what that involves.

The W8 and W9 buses both terminate at Chase Farm, and the 313 stops at the main entrance on its way to Potters Bar. That helps a carer taking someone to an outpatient appointment or to the Enfield Memory Service. The Memory Service is based at the Warwick Centre on the same site, and a GP referral is the way in.

Will Enfield Council pay for home care in Enfield Town?

It might. The first step is a needs assessment from Enfield Adult Social Care. Phone the Single Point of Access on 020 8379 1001 (Monday to Friday) or use the online referral that gov.uk's Enfield needs-assessment page links to. If eligible needs are found, a financial assessment decides how much the person pays towards their care. Enfield pays direct payments onto a prepaid E-Card, and the money can be used to buy care from an agency like ours. Where someone's needs are mainly health needs, ask the GP or the hospital whether NHS Continuing Healthcare should be considered. We quote after our assessment. Our Enfield home care page covers the borough-wide route, and paying for care explains the means test.

Live-in care near the town centre

A live-in carer needs a bedroom of their own, and plenty of Enfield Town semis have one. One carer can look after a couple, with full personal care for one partner and lighter help for the other.

Respite for family carers

Enfield Carers Centre is close enough to drop in: the 191 and W8 both stop on Baker Street. Its carers' assessment can lead to funded breaks. If you are due to have planned surgery at Chase Farm yourself, that is a fixed date we can plan respite care around, with a live-in carer arriving before you go in.

What we provide in Enfield Town

• Personal care
• Live-in care
• Companionship
• Home help
• Medication support
• Sit-in service
• Respite care
• Dementia care
• Palliative care
• Complex care
• Hospital discharge support
• Nail care

What we can help with in Enfield Town

• Personal care, washing and dressing
• Medication prompting and support
• Meals, laundry and home help
• Companionship and getting out
• Dementia care at home
• Support after a hospital stay
• Short breaks for family carers
• Live-in care when needs grow