Companion Care in Margate
Nothing physical whatsoever, which makes it the cheapest hour here and by a distance the simplest one to describe to somebody who insists they need no help.
The hour that opens the door
There is usually a long stretch in which a household plainly needs somebody dropping in and will accept no physical help at all. These hours exist for that stretch, and describing them honestly is what gets them accepted.
Because nothing hands-on happens, the walk-through is short and reassuring. Somebody arrives, they talk, they go for a walk or sit down to eat, and they leave. Said aloud in those words it stops sounding like care and starts sounding like a visitor.
So the matching matters more here than on any other page. A mediocre fit gets through a shower perfectly well. It will not get through an obligatory hour of talk, week in and week out.
Companion hours are frequently added onto an existing visit rather than bought alone — an extra half hour so the aide can sit down instead of leaving the moment the washing-up is done.
Where nothing physical is needed yet, one visit a week is a sensible way to begin.
What the hour is made of
Ordinary company, with whatever light job happens to fit around it.
Talk with a thread running through it
Resumed where it stopped, which is only possible because the same face keeps turning up.
A meal with somebody opposite
Two helpings set down together. Producing a meal and seeing one eaten are different accomplishments.
Somewhere to walk to
A turn round the block, an errand, a coffee somewhere. Modest, and it gives a shapeless week corners.
Whatever they already enjoyed
The garden, the crossword, cards, a programme never missed. Nothing imported from a timetable.
Odd jobs, incidentally
Drying a few plates, slitting an envelope, swapping a dead bulb. Simply a consequence of being there.
Noticed, and written down
Appetite, mood, steadiness on the feet and the general state of the rooms.
Not part of these hours
- Washing, showering and dressing
- Anything to do with continence
- Taking any of somebody's weight as they move
- Medicines of every kind
- Clinical work of any description
- Any journey by car
The simplest hour to say yes to
It is also the one families most often wish they had arranged a year before they did.
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