Home Care in Rayners Lane

Yes, we provide home care in Rayners Lane. Most of it is live-in care, because our only office is on Lewisham High Street, well over an hour away. Visiting care is possible when we have a carer free at the times you need, so ring us and we will give you a straight answer after a free home assessment.

A suburb that went up in about ten years

Rayners Lane was fields with a railway halt until the late 1920s. Metropolitan Railway Country Estates bought the land north of the station in 1927, and the houses that became Harrow Garden Village followed. South of the line, the builder T.F. Nash put up mostly terraced streets on the old Tithe Farm land in the early 1930s. Charles Holden's station was finished in 1938. Harrow designated the Rayners Lane Conservation Area in 2002. On the parade stands the Art Deco former Grosvenor cinema of 1936, now a Zoroastrian centre.

The result is a suburb where most homes look alike from the outside but care very differently:

• Semis in Harrow Garden Village (HA5). Three bedrooms, a box room, a front drive, and a straight staircase that usually takes a stairlift. A spare room is all a live-in carer needs.
• Nash terraces towards South Harrow (HA2). Narrower, with smaller bathrooms. Getting a shower chair or a perching stool into the bathroom is often the first practical job.
• The Rayners Lane estate. Much of the estate has been regenerated, and the newer homes there tend to have level access, which makes hoists and wheelchairs much easier to use.

Why Rayners Lane is easier for us than most of Harrow

Rayners Lane station is where the Metropolitan and Piccadilly lines meet, and both run west to Uxbridge. One of our three supported living homes is in Uxbridge, a short journey away, which makes it the closest of our homes to anywhere in Harrow. For families, that means a short stay or a longer placement there is a realistic option to look at alongside care at home.

It does not shorten the trip from Lewisham. A carer travelling from south-east London still faces a long journey each way, which is why we would rather be honest about visiting hours than promise a rota we cannot keep.

How do I get a council care assessment in Rayners Lane?

Harrow Council's Adult Social Care team handles it through Access Harrow. You can start online at any hour through the council's BetterCare Support self-assessment, or phone 020 8901 2680. The needs assessment is free whatever someone's savings. If the council arranges care, a separate financial assessment decides what the person pays. If they qualify for council-funded care, a direct payment can be used to pay an agency like ours. We give our own written quote after our assessment, and we do not quote prices over the phone.

Live-in care and breaks for family

Most Rayners Lane houses have the spare bedroom live-in care needs, and a carer moving in removes the travel problem entirely. For a family member doing the caring, respite care can be a live-in carer covering a fortnight away. Harrow Carers, on Pinner Road in North Harrow, is a short bus ride away and can help with a carer's assessment from the council.

Care we can arrange in Rayners Lane

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

What we can help with in Rayners Lane

• 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