Ravenscourt Park · Hammersmith and Fulham
Home Care in Ravenscourt Park
Visiting care, live-in care and respite for older and disabled people in the Victorian streets between King Street and Goldhawk Road, from Ravenscourt Road over to Stamford Brook.
Yes, we can provide home care in Ravenscourt Park, but be realistic about how. This corner of W6 is at the far western edge of Hammersmith, more than an hour from our Lewisham office, so live-in care is the option we can promise most reliably. Regular visits depend on having a carer who can get to you, and we will tell you on the first call whether we have one.
Do you have to pay for home care in Ravenscourt Park?
Not if Hammersmith & Fulham Council arranges it. H&F stopped charging for council home care in 2015, so a resident here who is assessed as eligible gets that care free. The first step is a Care Act assessment from Adult Social Care: call free on 0800 145 6095 (8.45am to 5pm, Monday to Friday) or use the council's online contact form. The council's office is on King Street itself, at numbers 145 to 155, a short bus ride towards Hammersmith.
Private care is paid for. Private care can cover what the council plan doesn't, such as longer visits, companionship, cover while an assessment is pending, or live-in care. We quote in writing after a free home assessment. Our Hammersmith and Fulham home care page explains how private care and direct payments sit alongside the free service.
Family houses that were built for climbing
The streets around the park are mostly substantial Victorian terraces and semi-detached houses, and a good number are still whole family houses. That's good news for staying at home, because there is usually space to work with. The difficulty is height. Three floors, a half-landing bathroom and a basement kitchen are fine at seventy and hard at ninety.
At the assessment we'll usually ask whether daily life could move onto one floor: a bed in the front room, a commode or downstairs toilet, the kitchen within reach. If a stairlift, grab rails or a level shower would help, ask Adult Social Care for an occupational therapy assessment when you request the care assessment. Flat conversions bring the opposite problem: little room for equipment and steep shared stairs.
The park is part of the care. For someone who is steady enough, a slow walk around Ravenscourt Park, or along to the shops on King Street, is a proper outing. Companionship visits can be planned around it. The Polish cultural centre POSK is also on King Street, which matters to some families when they talk to us about routines, food and church.
How a carer gets to W6 from Lewisham
Ravenscourt Park station on Ravenscourt Road and Stamford Brook, one stop west, are both on the District line, so a carer travelling from south-east London changes onto it in central London. Ravenscourt Park station isn't step-free, which also matters if you're planning trips out with someone who uses a wheelchair. Buses along King Street, including the 110, 190, 267 and H91, stop by the park.
Carers who drive need a parking space, and almost all of H&F is in controlled parking zones. You book them in through RingGo with a virtual visitor permit, which is discounted for Blue Badge holders. Anyone driving in from Barnes can't use Hammersmith Bridge, which is closed to cars, so they come round via Chiswick Bridge.
Live-in care in Ravenscourt Park
This is where the area's housing helps. A live-in carer needs a bedroom of their own, and many houses here have one spare. One live-in carer can also support a couple, giving personal care to one partner and lighter help to the other.
Respite for the person doing the caring
If you look after a partner or parent here, Carers Network is the council's named first contact for unpaid carers in H&F (020 8960 3033). You can also ask Adult Social Care for a carer's assessment. We can provide respite care as a sitter for an afternoon or a live-in carer while you are away. For longer breaks, our supported living home in Whitton is about 40 to 50 minutes away: District line to Richmond, then one stop on South Western Railway.
What visits can include
- Personal care
- Medication support
- Home help
- Companionship
- Sit-in service
- Dementia care
- Hospital discharge
- Palliative care
- Complex care
What we can help with in Ravenscourt Park
- 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
Elsewhere in Hammersmith and Fulham
Home care pages for other parts of Hammersmith and Fulham:
Our services
How we can help in Hammersmith and Fulham
From a few visits a week to a carer who lives in, choose the support that fits.
Visiting care in Hammersmith and Fulham
Regular visits for personal care, medication, meals and company.
Read more →Live-in care in Hammersmith and Fulham
A carer who lives in, for one person or a couple.
Read more →Respite care in Hammersmith and Fulham
Cover so a family carer can rest, recover or go away.
Read more →Supported living in Hammersmith and Fulham
Our homes in Whitton, Kingston and Uxbridge.
Read more →Ravenscourt Park FAQs
Ravenscourt Park: common questions
Questions families ask us about Ravenscourt Park. If yours is not here, ask us directly.
Ask a questionMy father lives off Paddenswick Road and is coming home from Charing Cross Hospital. Who do we speak to?
Start with the ward's discharge team, and ask whether the council's hospital assessment service (020 3311 1844) is involved. If he lives on the Chiswick side of the boundary, Hounslow Council rather than H&F will assess him, so confirm the council early. Then call us: Paddenswick Road is at the far western end for our visiting carers, so we'll tell you straight away whether visits are realistic or whether live-in care is the better plan.
Is Stamford Brook covered, or is that Chiswick?
The streets on this side of the borough boundary are in Hammersmith & Fulham, and we cover them. Some addresses around Stamford Brook are over the line in Hounslow, which changes which council does the assessment. Give us the address and we'll check.
Mum gets free council care in the morning. Can you add an afternoon visit?
We can look at it. A privately paid visit can sit alongside her council care, as long as both carers know what the other is doing. We'll ask to see her council care plan at the assessment. Whether we can staff a regular afternoon slot this far west depends on carer availability, and we'll be straight with you about that.
Our house is on four floors. Will a live-in carer manage?
Usually, yes. The carer needs their own bedroom and somewhere to wash. Which floor it's on matters less than where your mother sleeps and bathes. If she's struggling with the stairs at night, the assessment will look at moving her bedroom down before anything else.
Where can someone with memory problems get assessed locally?
Ask the GP for a referral to the borough's memory service, which is at St Vincent's on Queen Caroline Street, a short ride east along King Street or one stop on the District line. Our dementia care can start before a diagnosis if the person needs support at home now.
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