Managing at Home

At Home Services

Age UK can help people over the age 60+. The Home Response service can help people with shopping and light meal preparation, collecting prescriptions, supporting wellbeing & safety, support to GP & other appointments, light cleaning, information & signposting and transport home from hospital, if eligible. They do not provide personal care or administration of medication. The Information and Advice service can help with searching for care at homes, care assessments, accessing support for carers, disabled facilities grants and accessing small aids and adaptations. Age UK can also advise on aids, adaptations, community alarms, and key safes. This is a chargeable service.

Curo's Independent living service supports people to live at home independently, through dedicated support from their team of support workers. They also provide a pendant alarm service that is monitored 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. They can help with a range of support, including reviewing finances, maximising income and support with benefit and grant applications, support with shopping trips, including arranging online shopping, assistance with managing medical appointments and transport to and from the appointment, managing general correspondence, help with organising waste and recycling, advocating and signposting to other agencies for more specialist help. This is a chargeable service.

Home repairs

We Care Home Improvements provides help to homeowners and private tenants. Support includes surveying houses to identify defects, case-related services, grants and self-funded (if you own your own home). We Care also provides minor repairs, such as repairing a leaking tap, through to help when you leave hospital or advice on adapting your home, including deep cleans and clutters and any work that is necessary to support discharge. They can also make a referral to the Fire Service for a Home Safety check. There may be a charge for this service.

Specialist services

The Alzheimer's Society offers a Dementia support service providing information and practical guidance to help people understand dementia, cope with day-to-day challenges and prepare for the future. The service offers information to people who are worried about their memory and ongoing support to people affected by dementia face to face, over the phone or in writing.

The Stroke Association provides emotional, practical and communication (aphasia) support to stroke survivors and their carers, from hospital to home, through 1:1 support and groups. The team work with individuals and their families to identify their support needs and plan how these will be met, enabling them to make the best possible recovery. They have a specialist communication coordinator to support people with aphasia.

The Ageing Well Team are a multi-agency team selected from a number of partners within the Community Wellbeing Hub. They have been working the RUH's Frailty nurse to support people at home to address the common ‘frailty syndromes’ of falls, immobility, delirium, incontinence and side effects of medication.

Staying Connected

Village Agents provide a signposting and referral service for people living in rural locations or are isolated by other circumstances and where access to information is difficult. Those who are unsure what they want (because they have never been asked or always managed without) are encouraged to take small steps towards a more comfortable life, living independently and with peace of mind. The team arrange home visits or can meet at a place where the person feels at ease. They also support people to reconnect with local support networks.

Live Well B&NES (Council)

Live Well B&NES provides impartial information and signposting to many services, groups and organisations across the Bath & North East Somerset area. The site is split into three areas of need, providing support to adults to continue living independently, information to support young people with special educational needs and/or disabilities and parenting support to families including Ofsted registered childcare. See Support to be independent for services that can help individuals to remain living in their own home, including services offering practical and emotional support, household safety aids and adaptations, locally available homecare or domiciliary care and guidance around personal budgets, direct payments and personal assistants.