Home Care in Pinner, HA5

Yes, we provide home care in Pinner, and in practice it is usually arranged as live-in care. We start with a free assessment at home and a written care plan, then a carer moves in, so the distance from our Lewisham office stops mattering. Regular visiting calls are possible only where we have a carer free for the times you need, so ask us before you plan around them.

A medieval village with Metroland around it

Pinner has two characters. The old village runs up the High Street to St John the Baptist church, which was consecrated in 1321, and the street still hosts Pinner Fair every year under a charter Edward III granted in 1336. Around that core the Metropolitan Railway brought the 1920s and 30s: wide avenues of detached and semi-detached houses, the Pinnerwood Park garden estate, and the steeper roads climbing to Pinner Hill.

For care, those big interwar houses are mostly good news. They usually have a spare bedroom, a drive and a garden. The difficulties are the usual Metroland ones: a staircase with a turn at the top, the only bathroom upstairs, and a bath where a level shower would be safer. A few older cottages near the High Street have narrower stairs and doorways still. Closer to the station, along Marsh Road and Bridge Street, there are flats and retirement blocks with lifts, which are a very different job.

Getting a carer to HA5

Pinner station has been on the Metropolitan line since 1885, and Hatch End on the Lioness line is just to the north-east. Buses 183, H11, H12 and H13 serve the area. From Lewisham High Street it is London Bridge, the Jubilee line to Baker Street and a Metropolitan line train out, which takes well over an hour each way. A package of three short calls a day cannot run on that journey, and we would rather say so now than miss visits later.

Parking is the easy part. There is a controlled parking zone near the station and the shops, but most residential streets are uncontrolled. If you are inside a zone, Harrow sells visitor permits you can use for a carer's car.

How much does home care cost in Pinner?

We do not publish prices, because the cost depends on the care plan, and we cannot write one before we have met the person. You get a written quote after the free assessment. If you would like Harrow Council to help, ask for a needs assessment. It is free whatever your savings, can be started online through the council's BetterCare tool or by phoning 020 8901 2680, and is followed by a financial assessment. Details are on the council's adult social care page and on our Harrow home care page. Where the main need is health, the NHS may pay through NHS Continuing Healthcare.

Live-in care in a Pinner house

A live-in carer needs their own bedroom with a proper bed and a door that closes, plus a daily break. Most Pinner semis already have that. One carer can look after a couple, with full personal care for one and lighter help for the other. Many of the houses have long gardens and the village has Pinner Memorial Park, so a slow walk out is part of the day, not an extra.

A break for the family carer

If you are the one caring, a live-in carer can cover a holiday, an operation of your own or simply a fortnight off. That is our respite care. Ask Harrow Council for a carer's assessment as well. Harrow Carers, the charity the council names for unpaid carers, is on Pinner Road in North Harrow, a short bus ride south.

Care we can arrange in Pinner

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

What we can help with in Pinner

• 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