Live-in Care in Osterley

Yes, we provide live-in care in Osterley. A carer moves into your home and helps with personal care, meals, medication, housework and getting out, and is in the house overnight. Because most Osterley homes are interwar semi-detached and detached houses, there is usually a bedroom for the carer. A free assessment at home, usually with Jackie, our registered manager, comes first, then a written care plan.

Can one live-in carer look after both of us in Osterley?

In most cases, yes. Picture a couple in the house they bought decades ago, where one partner now needs help with washing, dressing and the stairs, and the other is managing but tiring. One live-in carer can give the first full personal care and help the second with cooking, shopping and appointments, so neither has to move out.

The care plan sets out what each of you needs, and the assessment checks whether either of you needs two people to move safely, for example with a hoist. If you do, one carer alone is not enough, and we will say so and talk about what else would be needed. We quote for the care of both of you together, in writing, after the assessment.

Sharing the house with a carer

A typical Osterley semi has two or three bedrooms upstairs, and a front and back room downstairs. That gives room to plan the house around the care:

• The carer's room. Usually the third or second bedroom. It needs a bed, storage and a door, and ideally it is on the same floor as the person they care for.
• If the stairs become too much. The person needing care may move to a bedroom downstairs while the carer, and a partner if there is one, stay upstairs. We agree with you how the night will work, including a monitor or alarm, before that move happens.
• Somewhere for the carer to be off duty. In a house this size the carer can have time in their own room without the household feeling crowded, which matters over weeks of living together.

The carer's break, with Osterley Park next door

Every live-in carer has a protected daily break, and someone needs to be with the person while they take it. That might be the other partner, a neighbour or a family member. In Osterley the carer can spend that time walking in the grounds of Osterley Park and House, or at Osterley Community Hub and Library on St Mary's Crescent. The small parade of shops near the station is close by for errands.

The park works for the person too. A short loop by the lakes on a good day, in a wheelchair if the paths suit, is an outing worth writing into the care plan.

Changeovers by tube or by car

Osterley is on the Piccadilly line, and TfL lists a car park at the station. For a carer coming from the south, Syon Lane and Isleworth on South Western Railway's Hounslow Loop are the alternatives. The M4 and the Great West Road make the area easy to reach by car, and parking is generally simpler than in Chiswick or Brentford. Controlled parking zones do not cover the whole borough, so check your street on the council's controlled parking zone page; if you are in one, buy visitor parking sessions for a carer who drives in on changeover day.

Coming home from West Middlesex

Osterley residents are usually treated at West Middlesex University Hospital in Isleworth, about ten minutes away by car. When one half of a couple is in hospital, the partner at home is often struggling too. A live-in carer can start supporting the partner at home and be there when the patient returns. Talk to us as soon as a discharge is discussed; our hospital discharge support page sets out the steps.

Paying for live-in care in Osterley

Hounslow Council assesses each person's needs and finances separately, so a couple may get different outcomes; its paying for care guide sets out the £23,250 savings threshold. NHS Continuing Healthcare may pay where needs are mainly health needs. Our live-in care in Hounslow page covers the council route and direct payments, live-in care in London describes the service, and home care in Osterley covers visiting care.

What we can help with in Osterley

• 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