At Care MK, as well as live-in care, we also offer short home care visits, where a professional carer visits an adult (often elderly person) in their own home to provide support to allow the individual to live as independently as possible. Most of our care visits last from 30 minutes or 45 minutes or an hour. But care visits can be much longer, when that’s what’s needed. This type of care is also referred to as domiciliary care.

We provide short home care visits to many locations in Milton Keynes and throughout the Milton Keynes area.
Home care visits allow our clients to continue to eat their favourite meals, prepared individually for them, without them having to choose from a limited menu.

A carer helping a client with any of the following:

• Personal hygiene.
• Continence care.
• Getting dressed.
• Light cleaning.
• Going shopping.
• Preparing meals.
• Laundry and ironing.
• Assisting clients to take their medicine.
• Personal care helping clients with washing and showering.
• Helping clients to get ready for bed.

We can provide companionship for elderly people with minimum needs, in their own home and we can accompany them to attend medical appointments or to social activities in the community. For a frail or disabled elderly person we will offer support with personal care.

Some clients just want one or two visits a day – perhaps a 45-minute or one-hour morning visit and a 45-minute or one-hour lunchtime visit.

A morning care visit might include helping the client to get up and get washed and dressed as well as preparing breakfast for them and helping the client to take their prescribed medication and leaving them with a hot drink.

A lunchtime visit might include preparing a hot meal and helping the client to take their prescribed medication and doing some light housework and leaving them with a hot drink. An early evening visit may include preparing a light meal, such as a sandwich for the client and leaving them with a hot drink. An evening visit may include helping the client get ready for bed and get into to bed.

Home care visits can be very flexible. We are happy to provide carers for care visits, lasting as short as 30 minutes, as well as for a morning or an afternoon or a day. Most regular visits last 30 minutes, 45 minutes or an hour. We cannot tell you exactly how much a care visit will cost, until we have found out what level of care is needed. 

For example, some clients will need two carers rather than just one. That’s why we visit you and your loved one in their own home and have a chat to work out how much care they need. Our prices are very competitive. We are not aware of any Milton Keynes care agency charging less than us and we encourage you to compare our fees with at least two other care agencies.