Home carer help for ageing couple

noelmartin1

I am trying to look into getting home-carer help for an couple in their late 70's.
Please, if anyone has any experience or information on how to explore these services (if indeed, they exist) I would much appreciate their input.

[please accept my apologies in advance if this is not the forum that this should be posted to; I couldn't find any category that I thought this matter fitted into]

Thank you in advance

Hanley

Try here first: http://www.hse.ie/go/homecarepackages/

And googling home care / home help + your location wherever that is should yield some private companies doing the same.

tenifan

Try maybe Soc - Accessibility & Mobility & Disability

Biz-personal-State benefits forum if you're enquiring about state support -which, btw barely exists except for more extreme cases. An elderly relative of mine entitled to state support with no assets who could not feed or dress got a couple of hours a week in support.. though she as she owned her own house and did not have rent expenses her state pension was used to pay for a lot of additional help, while my mother did all the rest of the work.

Otherwise, the "Region" forum is a good place to ask as people could direct you to the local meals on wheels, cleaners, or carers who could help out with the likes dressing/feeding/administering pills/etc.

roseybear

Find out who their public health nurse is and contact them. Or contact their gp and ask them to contact the public health nurse. Get a geriatric assessment carried out on them both as its a requirement of services such as respite ( for down the line) and is very useful to have. Or you can go the private route and just pay for carers there are lots of agencies who do this around the country