MIRACLE WORKERS LIVE-IN CARE AGENCY
Recent media investigations showing abuse and neglect at some long term care homes have made many families wary about this type of care for elderly relatives who can no longer cope by themselves. Making the right decision about long term care for a relative is always difficult and stressful. With extra legal responsibilities the burden is even greater.
Miracle Workers Care Agency provides live-in carers throughout the whole of the United Kingdom, as well as some European countries. Started by Miriam Warner some 12 years ago, Miracle Workers now has a growing list of over 130 clients with 180 carers. Their success has been built on providing a first class service to both private clients and for Primary Care Trust patients throughout the country. The outstanding reputation of Miracle Workers has been spread far and wide by word of mouth by totally satisfied clients, friends and relatives.
Miracle Workers carefully selects its live-in carers, many of them having years of care experience: they all undergo a Criminal Records Bureau check, are extensively trained and most importantly imbued with the ethos of Miracle Workers to ensure they provide the very highest level of care demanded of a ‘Miracle Worker carer’.
Why Live-In Care? Live-in care offers many advantages to other forms of care. Often the alternative to live-in care is residential or hospice care, where they seldom cater for couples and put vulnerable people in unfamiliar surroundings and into an institutional environment just when they least need it. Live-in carer allows people to remain in their home, in familiar surroundings, amongst their personal possessions and their friends, relatives and neighbours can visit whenever they want. A live-in carer also provides vital companionship, nursing care, peace of mind for relatives to know that someone is constantly on hand, and the carers are backed-up by a team of trained care managers who can deal with any emergency.
Short Term/ Long Term Care. Miracle Workers can provide both short and long term live-in care. Often at short notice, it can cater for patients coming out of hospital after an operation and allows them to recover at home, providing the nursing and daily living care and support to get them back on their feet. Miracle Workers also provide short term ‘Respite Care’ so the family carer of relatives can take a break and go on holiday.
More often it is long-term care that is required, as people or couples get old and frail and just can not cope or one or both are suffering from some old age disability: dementia, Alzheimers, Parkinsons or have mobility problems. Wishing to retain their independence, their dignity and wanting to remain in their own home (even to die at home) a live-in carer is the answer.
Advantages of a Live-In carer:
· Independence to remain in one’s own home in familiar surroundings
· Peace of mind for your relations
· Specialist care provided for all your needs
Miracle Workers Agency is registered with the CSIW - Care Social Standards Inspectorate of Wales - and is inspected every year to ensure it maintains the high standards for which it is noted.
The 5 Simple steps to arranging for a Live-in carer:
· Step 1. Either log on to Miracle Workers Website (www. Miracle-workers.co.uk ) and fill in and send the simple ‘Client Registration’ application form ( a soon as it is received a Care Manager will ring to discuss and to advise) or
Telephone the office 01873 737908 and speak to one of the Care Managers: Caryl, Chrissie or Miriam Warner herself. You will always be listened to and given the best independent advice.
· Step 2. You will be sent either by e mail or by post an ‘Initial Enquiry Booklet’ which informs you the different levels of care that can be provided, the terms and conditions etc.
· Step 3. An Assessor will arrange to pay a visit to the home. It is best if a family member can also be present. This visit is to ensure that the home is safe for a carer to be sent to and an assessment is made of all the vital information required to provide the best level of care.
· Step 4. A carer is carefully selected by the Care Managers to match the client and the predicament. Miracle Workers understands not every placement is successful and undertakes to replace a carer free of charge if requested, but they do take great pride in their success rate and a replacement is seldom needed. The carer gets a full brief on the assignment and is then despatched to the client.
· Step 5. The carer arrives at the home and starts the care package. After a period your Assessor will revisit to make sure everything is working perfectly and relatives will get regular phone up-dates from the Care Manager supervisor.
A Live-in carer provides companionship, support and practical assistance. Their main services include helping with mobility, shopping, meal preparation, doing light housework and any personal tasks that are required, as well as assisting clients in getting in and out of bed, personal care in the bathroom and driving to see friends or to appointments. A carer will offer respect and privacy at all times and allow client choice. They will help the client to do as much as they can for themselves, so that they can maintain as much independence as possible and will support the Client in their wish to maintain their chosen lifestyle.
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