Live-in Care in Addiscombe

We can arrange live-in care anywhere in Addiscombe. A carer moves in, takes the spare bedroom and supports one person or a couple day to day, with their own protected break every day. Addiscombe having no railway station makes no difference to live-in care, because the carer is already there. It starts with a free home assessment and a written care plan.

Three kinds of Addiscombe home, three different answers

Addiscombe changes as you walk east from East Croydon, and so does the case for live-in care.

Modern flats near East Croydon. These usually have lifts, level thresholds and wide doors, which make a wheelchair, a hoist or a hospital bed easy to manage. The question is bedrooms. A two-bedroom flat can work well. A one-bedroom flat cannot, because the carer needs a room of their own. The lease is the other thing to check (see the questions below).

Victorian and Edwardian terraces along and behind Lower Addiscombe Road. There is usually a spare room upstairs, but the bathroom tends to be up there too. If the stairs are no longer safe, the choice is a stairlift, a bed and commode downstairs, or both. We look at the stairs at the assessment, and Croydon Council's occupational therapists can assess for equipment.

Larger semis towards Shirley. Plenty of space, a drive for a carer's car, and often a downstairs room that can become a bedroom if needed.

Will live-in care work in a one-bedroom flat in Addiscombe?

No. A live-in carer cannot sleep on a sofa or in the living room and still give good care for weeks at a time. If the home has one bedroom, the realistic options are visiting care in Addiscombe, if we have carers free at the times needed, or a move to a home with more space. Another option is for the person to stay with a relative who has more room, with the carer living in there. We are happy to talk any of this through.

Changeovers without a station

Addiscombe lost its railway station in 1997, and the tram has filled the gap. When one carer hands over to the next, the arriving carer usually takes the train to East Croydon and then either walks, if the address is at the western end, or takes Tramlink a few stops to Lebanon Road, Sandilands, Blackhorse Lane or Addiscombe. TfL's tram pages show the current service.

Parking matters if the carer drives. Streets nearest the town centre are in Croydon's East Inner and East Outer permit zones, and the council's permit pages list no care-worker permit. A visitor day permit for the household, or a pay-and-display bay, covers the handover. Further east towards Shirley, many homes have their own drive.

Coming home from Croydon University Hospital

Addiscombe's acute hospital is Croydon University Hospital on London Road, on the far side of the town centre. Without a car in the family, a relative wanting to be there on the first evening faces a tram and bus journey across town. A live-in carer is in the house when the patient arrives, settles them in, and stays. Tell the ward early that you are looking at live-in care, and call us so we can try to assess before the discharge date is set. See our hospital discharge page for how we fit around the ward's plan.

Live-in care for a couple in Addiscombe

A couple in a family-sized Addiscombe house often have exactly the space one live-in carer needs. The carer can look after both, giving full personal care to one partner and lighter help to the other, cooking for the household and being there at night. That keeps the couple together at home, and one carer for two people is usually far easier to arrange than two separate care home places. If both partners need two people to help them move, or nights are regularly disturbed, we will tell you that one carer is not enough.

Who pays for live-in care in Addiscombe?

There are three routes. Croydon Council may contribute after a needs assessment and a financial assessment, and its funding can be paid as a direct payment that you use for live-in care. Kingston Centre for Independent Living runs Croydon's direct payment support service. Where someone's needs are mainly health needs, NHS Continuing Healthcare may fund the whole package. Otherwise care is paid privately. Whichever applies, we quote in writing after our free assessment. Our Croydon live-in care page sets out the council route, and our London live-in care page explains the service.

What we can help with in Addiscombe

• A carer living in, with their own room
• Care for one person or a couple
• Personal care through the day
• Medication support
• Cooking, housekeeping and laundry
• Dementia support at home
• Company, outings and appointments
• Cover arranged for the carer's breaks