Home Care in Harefield Village, UB9

Yes, we can arrange home care in Harefield, mainly as live-in care, where a carer moves in and supports your relative around the clock with breaks built in. Harefield has no station and is one of the furthest places in London from our Lewisham office, so short daily visits are rarely something we can staff. Call for a free home assessment and we will be honest about what we can cover.

How do you get home care in Harefield with no Tube station?

This is the practical question that shapes everything else. The nearest Underground stations are Uxbridge, Ickenham, Northwood and Moor Park, and the nearest railway stations are Denham and Rickmansworth. Route 331 runs between Uxbridge and Ruislip through the village, and the U9 runs from Uxbridge to Harefield Hospital. For a carer coming from south-east London, that means a journey well over ninety minutes each way before the visit starts.

A live-in carer makes that journey once, at the start of their placement. After that, the carer is in the house: helping with washing and dressing, meals, medication, and any wake-ups in the night. It is the arrangement that works best for a village this far out.

A real village on the edge of London

Harefield sits about seventeen miles from Charing Cross, with Buckinghamshire to the west and Hertfordshire to the north, and it still reads as a village. St Mary the Virgin on Church Hill is its oldest building. Its churchyard holds more than a hundred graves of Australian soldiers from the First World War, when Harefield Park was an Australian military hospital, and an Anzac Day service is still held there each year. The Grand Union Canal and the lakes of the Colne Valley lie just to the west, with Green Belt fields around the edges.

The homes are mixed: old cottages and terraces near the High Street, post-war council houses, and larger detached houses on the outskirts. Cottages can have narrow, twisting stairs and small rooms that make a hoist or a hospital bed awkward. The council houses usually have a straight staircase and a second bedroom, which suits live-in care. At the assessment we look at the room the carer would sleep in, the bathroom and the way in and out of the house.

Coming home after Harefield Hospital

Harefield Hospital on Hill End Road is a specialist heart and lung hospital, now part of Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust. People come here for cardiac surgery and transplants from well beyond Hillingdon, so a villager recovering from heart surgery may be on the same ward as someone from the south coast. Recovery at home after major heart or lung surgery often means weeks of help with washing, getting up safely and keeping to a medication routine. Tell the ward early that you are arranging care, and see our hospital discharge support page. For general emergencies and most other admissions, residents go to Hillingdon Hospital in Uxbridge.

Breaks for the family carer

A spouse or son or daughter doing the caring can ask Hillingdon for a carer's assessment through the council's online carer's assessment form. Carers Trust Hillingdon, on Uxbridge High Street, runs the borough's carer support service and advises on respite. Harefield Library hosts one of the council's dementia groups, and Age UK Hillingdon, Harrow and Brent runs a dementia sitting service. For a longer break, a live-in carer can step in for respite care while the family carer goes away.

The Hillingdon council route

Needs assessments come from Hillingdon Social Care Direct: 01895 556633, Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm, or the online application form. If the council funds care, it can pay it as a direct payment on a pre-paid card that can be used with a provider you choose. If you are paying yourself, we give a written quote after our assessment. Our Hillingdon home care page explains the rest of the borough's process.

Services available in Harefield

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

What we can help with in Harefield

• 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