An estimated 90% of people who die would benefit from palliative care at home
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The affects of End of Life/Palliative care at home
Choosing to receive care at home during the final stage of life brings comfort, pain and challenges. For the person, being at home can mean staying connected to memory, routine and loved ones, but it also may mean adjusting to increasing dependency, managing symptoms like pain, breathlessness or fatigue, and adapting the home environment for comfort and safety.
For family members and loved ones it often means stepping into a new kind of role. Providing emotional presence, helping with personal care, liaising with health professionals, ensuring medications or equipment are in place, and often being ready to respond at any time. The home may feel fuller with regards of meaning but also heavier with the weight of responsibility. Good homecare gives everyone space to focus on time together and moments of peace and personal dignity rather than being consumed by clinical information, distress or crisis.
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Its about continuity, friendship, and puncutality...
Which is why we arrive on time, every time, with a familiar face.
You also get access to our Family Portal, so you are always in the know.
What is Palliative care?
End-of-life care refers to the support provided when someone is approaching the final phase of life. Palliative care is the specialist care that focuses on relieving symptoms, managing pain, and supporting quality of life for people living with life-limiting conditions. At home this means bringing the care, comfort and dignity of those services into the person’s own environment so they can stay surrounded by familiar places and people.
How we support people at the end of life
Horizons Homecare do not offer bespoke palliative care packages, unless our current clients are transitioning to that stage of care. For them, we offer compassionate, skilled support designed for the final chapter of life, enabling the person to remain at home with dignity, comfort and choice. We begin by working with the person and their loved ones to understand their wishes, priorities and how their home life has changed, we can support the person and the family to ensure the person has advanced decisions in place to ensure they receive the end of life they want. Our carers are trained to provide sensitive care around symptom relief, mobility support, personal comfort, medication prompts and liaising (with consent) with specialist palliative or community teams. We help adapt the home for safety and comfort, support families with communication and reassurance, and review care plans often so changing needs are met promptly. Our goal is to ensure home remains a place of connection, respect and meaning. Not simply care.
Three simple steps to using Horizons Homecare
1. Get in touch with us
Have a no obligation, confidential, conversation with one of our care experts to discuss your needs. We will ask questions about you or your loved ones and hopefully we will book the next stage.
Our core values...
The foundation of our success
Kindness
We believe that being truly kind isn't a skill, and it certainly isn't something you can learn. Being kind by nature is who you are!
Thats why we only employ, train and nurture those who are truly kind and caring towards other people. Not only does this belief form our recruitment process and decisions, it has become one of the foundations of our business.
Punctuality
We firmly believe that routines are what keep us as people, independent. Why should that change just because you require support at home?
Punctuality is another foundation of our business, and it means that when you become a client of Horizons, you will always know when your care team will be arriving. No more care workers being late, and no more missed visits.
Continuity
Something we have always been very eager to improve is the quite possibly the biggest 'flaw' in social care services today. Continuity...
After all, we wouldn't want our loved ones seeing a different person at every care visit, so why should you have to put up with it?
This is why you will have your very own team of care workers that really understand you and your routines. Your history, your family and your hobbies.
Family
The word family, encapsulates everything that we stand for, but unlike others who say they are a family run company. We truly are!
From our HCAs to our clients, we are all one family striving for better outcomes and happier lives. This is why family is not only a core value, but the bricks and mortar we build the foundations on.
Get the information you need to make the best decision
Our downloadable enquiry brochure
Our downloadable care guide