Live-in home care in Bieldside

Our care is focused on keeping people safely and happily in the comfort and familiarity of their own home, whilst improving their overall health and wellbeing. Care is provided on a one-to-one basis and is highly personalised reflecting not just an individual’s care needs, but their choices, wishes and social preferences.

For those living with specialist conditions, our expert care teams are highly trained to provide care and support that positively enhances quality of life, enabling people to live well in their own homes.

Our nurse-led care in  , for those living with complex medical conditions, is led and supported by a dedicated Specialist Consultant Nurse, who works closely with our care teams to ensure we are consistently improving our clients health outcomes.

Whether you have mobility and frailty issues, are recovering from an operation and need convalescent care, or you simply require companionship care at home, our comprehensive live-in care service ensures you can live a fulfilled and meaningful life. Our approach to delivering OT-led care at home enables faster discharge from hospital whilst ensuring they have a comprehensive plan of care with all the equipment they need to live well at home, whilst significantly reducing the risk of falling.

Types of care:

• Respite
• Companionship
• Intermediate
• Short term care
• Specialist & complex care
• Over night care
• Personal care
• Emergency care
• Hospital discharge & end of life

There are many other compelling benefits to receiving live-in care in from The Good Care Group:

• A perfectly matched care team in  , closely aligned with how you wish to live your life, sharing common interests, personalities and backgrounds.

• Unlike any other live-in home care provider in  , we have invested in creating our own market-leading online community for our clients, their families and our professional carers to monitor health outcomes.
• For families who may live some distance away from their loved one in  , they can access care plans, care records and a calendar of events as and when they wish.
• Our health measures are focused on:
  • Promoting wellbeing, independence and enjoyment
  • Reducing behaviours that challenge through implementation of psychosocial techniques
  • Reducing and eliminating antipsychotic drug use
  • Promoting excellence in nutrition and hydration
  • Reducing and preventing falls in the home
  • Reducing hospital admissions and re-admission
  • Reducing UTIs and chest infections

Rated ‘Excellent’ by the care inspectorate

The Good Care Group is the only live-in care provider in  to achieve an ‘Excellent’ rating by The Care Inspectorate in care and support. We know this provides families with peace of mind that their loved one is receiving the best possible care.

A fully managed and regulated live-in care service in  

Our fully managed and regulated live-in care service in   offers families reassurance at a time they need it most. Unlike introduction agencies who are not regulated by The Care Inspectorate, all our live-in carers are directly employed and managed by us. We ensure they are supervised by an experienced manager and supported by clinical experts – 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

Unrivalled management support

Each dedicated Care Manager has a small portfolio of clients in the   area, providing unrivalled levels of support to, not just our clients, but our care team enabling a service that is of the very highest quality.

Companionship care

At The Good Care Group, we have been enabling people in   to live a fulfilled and purposeful life in the comfort of their own home for over 10 years. Our live-in companionship care service means you can live well with the right level of care and support in your own home. A dedicated companion can really spend time getting to know you and how you wish to live your life – then offer the one-to-one company, care and support you need. This approach simply cannot be achieved in even the very best care home where carers are sharing their time between several residents.

Our carers can help you enjoy the local outdoor amenities in and around   including:

• Hazlehead Park
• Duthie Park
• Seaton Park

Our professional carers will also be able to assist you with appointments at the local hospital;

• Aberdeen Royal Infirmary
• Woodend Hospital

And local pharmacies including and not restricted to;

• Rowlands Pharmacy
• Lloyds Pharmacy

Personal care

What is personal care?

Personal care in the home is a very broad term used to describe a number of different areas of care and support a carer will provide, and includes:

• Bathing and showering
• Dressing and getting ready for bed
• Foot care
• Hair and beauty
• Oral hygiene
• Applying creams and lotions
• Toileting
• Bed positioning
• Clinical personal care ​​​​​​

Additionally our carers can provide support in your home, including help with domestic tasks, monitoring and management of medications, compassionate companionship and meal planning and cooking.

Complex care

The NHS is the primary provider of complex healthcare services in  . Whilst much of this care is provided in hospital, services are also provided in other ways:

• In the person’s own home, where the NHS will either provide or fund a third-party partner or organisation to provide care services based on an assessment of needs.
• In a nursing home, where the individual is cared for in either a local authority funded home or a privately run nursing home.
• In a third-party partner’s facility where care is paid for by the NHS.

What conditions can our complex care at home support?

Our live-in care service for those requiring complex care is provided on a one-to-one basis resulting in a high quality, compassionate service that ensures an individual is able to live a fulfilling life and maintain their lifestyle choices, despite the limitations of their medical condition.

The complex conditions we care for includes, but is not limited to:

• Degenerative conditions – like dementia, Parkinson’s disease and Multiple Sclerosis (MS)
• Cancer care
• Stroke care
• Palliative care (end-of-life care)
• Post-operative health care
• Respiratory conditions – like COPD
• Congenital disease
• General frailty