Practical Care / Domestic Services
The following services are provided under practical or domestic care:
- Assisting with Cleaning and Housework to include:
- Vacuuming, dusting, polishing, general tidying, mopping, and cleaning
- Disposing of household refuse
- Making bed
- Cleaning silverware, cutlery, glass, mirrors etc
- Cleaning after (none intentional) body fluid spillage or problems of incontinence
- Cleaning floors, bathrooms, kitchen, windows and toilets
- Washing up utensils
- Responding to household emergencies including liaison with the authorities and local contractors
- Collecting pensions, prescriptions, medicines and benefits etc
- Paying utility bills, forms filling and general correspondences.
- Assist with shopping activities -
- checking levels of foodstuffs and other everyday items in the service user's home,
- helping the service user to prepare shopping lists and budget accordingly,
- shopping on behalf of the service user or accompanying them if mobility allows,
- with Social Services approval assisting client if they wish to purchase from a catalogue
- Laundering garments, bedding, linen, personal clothing and drying etc
- Mending - taking materials to tailoring shops for mending
- Ironing