Live-in Care in Brook Green

Yes, we arrange live-in care in Brook Green, for a single person or for a couple. A carer moves into the spare room, helps with everything from getting up to going to bed, and takes a planned break each day while we arrange cover for their days off. Jackie, our registered manager, comes first for a free assessment, and the care plan is written with you from what she finds.

A house on the green, or a flat in one

The houses around Brook Green were mostly built at the end of the 19th century, and the green has been a conservation area since 1971. Many are still large family houses; many more have been divided into flats. For live-in care, that split decides almost everything.

A whole house nearly always has a room for the carer. The challenge is height: three or four storeys, with the best bedroom often on the first or second floor. A stairlift on a straight Victorian staircase is sometimes possible; a winding one is harder. Many families move the bedroom to the ground-floor back room and fit a downstairs shower, so the person and the carer live mostly on one level.

A flat in a converted house or a mansion block needs two bedrooms. Garden flats are the easiest for wheelchairs and hoists. Upper flats without a lift are the hardest, because every outing, delivery and appointment depends on the stairs. If there's only one bedroom, regular visiting care in Brook Green is the realistic option.

How does a live-in carer get to Brook Green without a station?

On foot from one of two stations, each about ten minutes away. Hammersmith, at the southern end, is served by the District, Piccadilly, Circle and Hammersmith & City lines. Kensington (Olympia), to the east, is on the Overground's Mildmay line, which a carer from south London can pick up at Clapham Junction. Buses 72, 220, 283 and 295 stop near the green. On changeover day, the arriving carer can come straight from either station with their bag.

A carer who drives parks on the resident's visitor permit, booked as a session on RingGo, since the streets here are controlled parking. Anyone driving from Barnes or the south-west should allow for the diversion via Putney or Chiswick bridges, because Hammersmith Bridge is closed to cars.

The green, the café and the library at the end of the road

A live-in carer is entitled to a proper break each day. Here it can be spent a few doors away. Brook Green itself has a café with toilets and a quiet area, and it's a Green Flag park. At the Hammersmith end of Shepherd's Bush Road, opposite the police station, Hammersmith Library is open seven days a week except bank holidays, with an accessible toilet. Both work just as well as an outing with the person on a good day: coffee on the green, then a look at the large-print shelves. If the person can't be left during the break, a relative or neighbour can sit with them, or we can try to arrange a short visit, depending on carer availability.

After Charing Cross or Hammersmith Hospital

Brook Green sits between two Imperial College Healthcare hospitals. Charing Cross on Fulham Palace Road is the local A&E. Hammersmith Hospital on Du Cane Road is a specialist centre for kidney and transplant patients, cancer care and heart attacks, so a discharge from there often follows major treatment. Either way, a carer living in covers the nights, the medication routine and the early-morning confusion that can follow a long admission. Tell the ward early that you're planning live-in care, and ask whether the council's hospital assessment service is involved. Our hospital discharge page explains our side.

Funding live-in care near Brook Green

Hammersmith & Fulham's council offices are at 145-155 King Street, but the first step is a phone call: Adult Social Care on freephone 0800 145 6095 for a Care Act assessment. Home care the council arranges is free in this borough; whether it will fund live-in care, for example through a direct payment, depends on the assessment. Where needs are mainly medical, NHS Continuing Healthcare may pay. We quote in writing after our free assessment. See live-in care in Hammersmith and Fulham for the funding detail and live-in care in London for how placements run.

What we can help with in Brook Green

• 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