Home & Visiting Care in Swanage

Swanage • Isle of Purbeck, Dorset

Flexible hourly home and visiting care in Swanage

Not everyone needs round-the-clock care. Sometimes the difference between coping and struggling is a friendly face at the right moment: someone to help you out of bed and into the day, a prompt to take your tablets, a proper hot meal, or simply company for a walk down to the seafront. Home and visiting care in Swanage does exactly that. Our Care Professionals call in for anything from a 30-minute drop-in to several visits a day, so you can carry on living independently in the home you love at the eastern end of the Isle of Purbeck.

We will be honest about how we operate. Our head office is in the South of England and our Bournemouth office covers the whole Purbeck coast, so we do not have a shopfront on the Swanage High Street. What we do have is a reliable local rota of vetted, trained Care Professionals who know the town and the roads out to Wareham. Everyone we place has completed enhanced DBS and right-to-work checks, references and training before their first visit, and wherever possible the same familiar faces return, because trust is built one cup of tea at a time.

What visiting care in Swanage covers

• ✓ Short calls from 30 minutes, up to several visits a day
• ✓ Morning get-up and evening settle-down routines
• ✓ Personal care, washing, dressing and continence support
• ✓ Medication prompts and reminders
• ✓ Meal preparation and staying well hydrated
• ✓ Light housework, laundry and shopping
• ✓ Drop-in and check-in visits for peace of mind
• ✓ Companionship and help getting out and about

A visiting pattern built around your day in Swanage

Visiting care is at its best when it flexes. Many people we support in Swanage start with a single morning call and add more as they need it: a lunchtime visit, an evening call to help with medication and settle for the night, or a mid-afternoon check-in. Others use us for a couple of longer visits a week to get out to the High Street shops, keep a hair appointment, or sit in the sunshine at Durlston Country Park. Because we agree the plan with you and review it regularly, the care can grow or ease back as things change, without you having to move or give up your independence.

Local knowledge across Swanage and Purbeck

Swanage sits a long way from the bigger towns, and that shapes how we deliver visits. The single road out to Wareham and Poole is slow through the summer season, so we plan rounds carefully to keep call times reliable across the town centre, the seafront, Herston, Durlston, New Swanage and Ulwell, as well as the surrounding villages of Langton Matravers, Studland, Corfe Castle, Worth Matravers, Kingston and Harmans Cross. We also keep in close contact with GPs and district nurses, and we notice the small changes between visits that can matter, from a poor appetite to a change in mood, and flag them early.

Regular visits are often the ideal support after a hospital stay. When someone comes home from Swanage Community Hospital on Queens Road, run by Dorset HealthCare University NHS Foundation Trust, or from Poole Hospital, run by University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust, a few calls a day can rebuild confidence, keep medication on track and prevent the sort of setback that lands people back on a ward. As recovery goes well, we simply reduce the visits.

Funding and the cost of visiting care in Swanage

Visiting care is priced by the visit and by how much support you need, so a plan of short daily calls costs very differently from several long visits a day. We give you a clear quote up front. Many Purbeck families self-fund, but you may be entitled to help: Dorset Council can carry out a free care needs assessment followed by a financial assessment, and some people qualify for council support. Visiting care at home in England is regulated by the Care Quality Commission (CQC), so standards are the same however you pay. Read more on our paying for care guide, or see the full range on our services pages.

Areas of Swanage we cover for visiting care

We arrange home and visiting care across the town and the surrounding BH19 postcode and Purbeck villages, including:

• Swanage Town Centre
• Herston
• Durlston
• New Swanage
• Ulwell
• The Seafront
• Langton Matravers
• Studland
• Corfe Castle
• Worth Matravers
• Kingston
• Harmans Cross