Home Instead Abingdon, Didcot & Newbury

We have been supporting people to live well at home since 2012. If you'd like to find out about support for yourself or your loved one, call us and find out more. www.homeinstead.co.uk/abingdon-didcot-newbury

Lets finish the week with some great news! Our wonderful Care Professional, Rachel (who was also a highly commended runner up in the Berkshire Care Awards) has just completed her Level 3 in Health & Social Care. Well done Rachel - you do an amazing job each day with your clients and have also been working super hard to achieve this accreditation. You really are a superwoman!! 🤩

Open sessions for care professionals within the industry and those whose loved ones are living with dementia. A very worthwhile experience!

Common long-term conditions such as heart disease, cancer and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease can be treated at home.
We’re proud to have Care Professionals trained to deliver complex care to make staying at home a reality for people living with long-term conditions.
The NHS is undergoing a five year plan for long-term conditions to be increasingly managed in the community, including people’s homes. We’re delighted to play a part.

For care that feels more like the help and support of a kind friend or family member, speak with us at Home Instead. We can help with everyday chores around your home as well as supporting you with meal prep, personal care and companionship. Call us on 01635 017000 to find out more and we can arrange a no obligation time to meet to discuss our support further.

Our brilliant Care Professional, Dawn and her husband had a great day at The Marvelous Festival in Dinton Pastures yesterday. Dawn was the lucky winner of two tickets for the festival after a competition we ran last week. She had a fun day out listening to all the bands in, thankfully, dry and warm weather! And we are loving Dawns bucket hat - she was really getting into the festival vibe!

Lets change this narrative!

Feeling sidelined by society? 🤔

Our latest research, The shows that being older in the UK can feel like being ‘cancelled’, with over a third of respondents (35%) believing this...

Older individuals feel neglected by fashion and high street brands. Serving a valuable lesson for brands, marketers and retailers - let’s change this narrative! 👗

Congratulations to our lovely Care Professional, Dawn for winning our Marvelous Festival/Google competition. We popped over to see Dawn yesterday to drop off the tickets and not only did we have a lovely chat with Dawn in her beautiful garden, but also met these two little pups who think they are little human babies! Thank you Dawn for your great review and have a fantastic time at the festival this coming Sunday - think its going to be lovely weather for you! 😎🌞🍹🎸

Last Thursday, we were lucky to have the best weather of the week for our Summer Social bowls evening. As sponsors of the Twyford bowls club this year, we had a fun evening of bowls and pizza with our office team and many of our Care Professional team. A big thank you to the members of the bowls club who joined us to teach and host the games. Our Care Pro, Linda won the trophy so congratulations to her on becoming the Home Instead Bowls Champion 2024! And thank you to everyone who came and made it a really enjoyable evening - we hope you all had fun!

Just a reminder that the Virtual Dementia Experience is coming to our offices in Ruscombe on 30th August and is open to the public. You can book an AM (10am-1pm) or PM (1.30pm-4.30pm) slot and our team will be on hand before and after to talk about dementia and the support that is available. For more info and to book your place go to https://www.training2care.com/home-instead-maidenhead-virtual-dementia-tour.htm

Congratulations to Kristina on completing her Care Certificate! Kristina is one of our wonderful Care Professionals who undergo intensive training when they first join us to ensure the are confident and competent in caring for our clients who are living in their own homes. Well done on completing your Care Certificate, Kristina - you are doing amazing work! 🤩💜🤩

We recently met up with local writer Natalie Baldwin to find out more about her new venture, Life Legacy. Natalie creates beautiful prose or poems personalised for your loved one for any special occasion. Read more

Life Legacy Stories | Home Instead Enjoy your hobbies and pastimes in a place of familiar comfort at home: find home care in Life Legacy Stories to see it could be the right fit for your needs.

Read our blog about our dementia training day for our team on the Home Instead Training2CARE virtual experience dementia bus and find out more about its national tour in August when it returns to Home Instead Maidenhead on Friday 30th. and is open to members of the public to take part.

Dementia Experience Bus at Home Instead Maidenhead, Henley & Wallingford Experience for yourself what it can be like to live with dementia via the Home Instead virtual dementia experience bus here at our office on Friday 30th. August.

Our latest blog gives tips and advice on keeping cool during these summer months. In this weather - when its super warm one day, a bit nippy the next - we need to be prepared and our team of Care Professionals have years of experience when it comes to supporting people to live well in their own homes during these hotter months. Read more though the link

Keeping Cool in the Summer Months | Home Instead Enjoy your hobbies and pastimes in a place of familiar comfort at home: find home care in Keeping Cool in the Summer Months to see it could be the right fit for your needs.

Heres the morning group of our Care Professionals taking part on the Home Instead dementia bus - the first photo shows how they enter the bus - with spiky insoles in their shoes, gloves, glasses and headphones. And the other snap is them all after their debrief, sharing feedback and experiences. We have a fantastic team - this is just a few of them - and by taking the time today to learn more about what it feels like to live with dementia, means we can support and understand our clients even better. 💜

Today we have invited many of our care team to have some training with Training2CAREs dementia bus to further develop their knowledge and understanding for those living with dementia. This will ultimately make them even more capable when supporting those living with dementia and further our aim in providing the very best care and support for our clients.

The experience is a scientifically and medically proven way of replicating dementia. Taking part involves wearing goggles, headphones and spiky insoles. They are then asked to perform various tasks, but with a twist. Distorted vision, loud noises and sensory overload all recreate what it can be like to have dementia. Suddenly, those everyday tasks we take for granted aren’t so simple.

Stay tunes to our social posts to see more about today.

All our Care Professional team receive training to ensure they are confident in providing the high quality care associated with Home Instead. Here's our wonderful Care Pro Adri, who has just achieved her care certificate. Well done, Adri! 💜🎉💜

If you would like to find out more about joining our friendly team, call us on 01635 017000 and speak with Gillian.

Everyone knows we support our clients with hourly care, but did you know we also provide Live In care? Read our latest blog to find out how you or your loved one can benefit from that same Home Instead care, but round the clock! https://www.homeinstead.co.uk/abingdon-didcot-newbury/blog/live-in-care/

Home Instead Abingdon, Didcot & Newbury Home Instead Abingdon, Didcot & Newbury supporting people of all ages to live well in their own homes

Lovely words from one of our clients.....

From providing a hand with the shopping to support with medications, we provide the personalised care mum and dad need to live independently at home.

Speak with our team about your needs and learn what makes Home Instead different.

How we can help:

• Help with daily activities
• Respite care
• Post-hospital care
• Support for illnesses
• Round-the-clock care
• Transportation
• Alzheimer’s and dementia care

We often say that every day is mental health awareness day, but this week especially, as we observe Mental Health Awareness Week, may we all work through the tough and challenging times to find those better, more beautiful days. ✨💪🏻

Whilst it's common to experience some memory lapses as we age, dementia involves more significant changes that impact daily life. The chart below is a great starting point for understanding these differences. It’s important to remember that other conditions can also cause similar symptoms, and only a health professional can diagnose dementia.

To learn more about the main symptoms of the most common types of dementia, such as Alzheimer’s disease and vascular dementia visit https://www.alzheimers.org.uk/about-dementia/worried-about-memory-problems/is-it-getting-older-or-dementia. Let's stay informed and supportive.

Dementia Action Week

Tomorrow (Wednesday 15th May), we will be holding an information stand on Northbrook Street, central Newbury RG14 1AE (opposite Marks & Spencer) from 10am - 3pm as part of Dementia Action Week. So if you are in town, pop over and find out more about how we support people with dementia to live well in their own homes.

Also in Newbury tomorrow - Alzheimers Society, Age UK, Young People with Dementia and many more plus songs from the dementia choir and seated exercise sessions.

Home Instead - award winning support for local people. Hourly and live in care. Long term or short term/respite/recovery. Companionship, home help & personal care.

Dignity, compassion and respect are at the heart of what we do. 💜

As Dementia Action Week begins, let's shine a light on the nearly 900,000 individuals in the UK living with dementia—a number expected to rise significantly. Dementia primarily affects those over 65, but it can also impact younger individuals. At Home Instead, we're dedicated to “Changing the face of ageing”. Our Care Professionals are offered City & Guilds Dementia training so they can look after our clients with expert knowledge.

Discover more about our specialist support for local clients living with dementia here: https://www.homeinstead.co.uk/care/specialist/dementia/

As Mental Health Awareness Week approaches, let's remember that loneliness can affect anyone, at any age. Let’s make it a priority to reach out to our ageing loved ones and ensure they feel seen and heard.

Another mention of us in The Herald publications https://www.heraldseries.co.uk/news/24307286.home-instead-enjoys-multiple-successes-awards-event/

Another article about the Berkshire Care Awards and our successes!!
https://www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk/news/24307286.home-instead-enjoys-multiple-successes-awards-event/

Great article about our recent award successes in the Oxford Mail.

Home care provider enjoys multiple successes at awards event Two home care provider have enjoyed multiple successes at an awards event.