24/7 HOME CARE SERVICES.
In instances where a loved one need to be supported around the clock, we can work with the family and other professionals to develop a senior home care program that will suit their exact needs. At Private Care & Love we can coordinate with you for a full day program or even around the clock care for your loved one. This care can include any or all of the components listed in our personal care section or any of the services. We have specialized teams that are tailored to your loved one’s needs. We strive to ensure a perfect match that delivers care, companionship and attention to the details that really matter.
If your loved one has dementia or Alzheimer’s disease, our 24-hour care can be of great assistance to the family. As your loved one’s disease progresses and everyday tasks are a bigger challenge, we want to step in and help Mom or Dad achieve their tasks and daily chores. Neurological diseases affect everyday life from the moment they first wake up to when they go to sleep at night. Our caregivers will ensure your loved one’s 24-hour care will provide the quality of life that not only are they used to, but that they deserve.
If Mom or Dad have difficulty with daily tasks such as bathing, grooming, or meal preparation, Private Care & Love s all-day care is a great option. We can provide care for your loved one 24 hours a day to help with daily tasks and provide meaningful experiences and companionship to enrich their lives. Our 24-hour care will give your family peace of mind while also ensuring your loved one is safe and comfortable with our senior home care in Gauteng. We pride ourselves for being one of the top home care companies.
In conjunction with 24-hour care, Private Care & Love Caregivers are also willing to help with all the usual (and sometimes unusual) housekeeping duties. These may include laundry, changing bedding, dusting, disinfecting and tidying, and more. Reach out if you are interested in adding housekeeping services in conjunction with our other services. We are happy to tailor a program specifically for your loved one.
Postoperative Care.
Private Care & Love is offering comprehensive pre and postoperative care in the comfort of your home. Our team of Qualified Nurses and experienced Care Givers is dedicated to providing quality postoperative care for patients recovering from surgery. With personalized attention and expert medical supervision, we ensure a smooth and comfortable recovery process. Whether you or your loved one requires preoperative preparation or postoperative monitoring and assistance, trust our Qualified Nurses and skilled Care Givers to deliver compassionate care and support throughout this critical phase.
Experience the convenience and peace of mind with our postoperative care at the comfort of your home. Private Care & Love (Home Based Care) provides an home Nursing Services for you post operatively (Post operative care). Our experienced Care Givers and Qualified Nurses have recognized Qualifications in Post-Operative Nursing allowing you to combine your Surgery with an extended comfortable stay in the region while enjoying all that has to offers,
Our Nursing Care Services would include:
- Preoperative, Hospital admission Stay and Post-Operative Services
- Dietary Advice, support and management pre-and post-Bariatric Surgery
- Post-operative Wound Dressings
- Post-operative Pain Management
- Mobilization Assistance post operatively
- Assistance with Showering and Grooming
- Psychological support and reassurance
- Monitor and prevent signs and symptoms of post-operative complications.
- Post Surgical care
- Private nurse care after surgery
- Medical long term care
- Assisted living medical care
- Medical nurse at home
- Long term Home Based Care
Disability Care(Wheelchair Management).
Our disability care services help with everything your loved one needs to live more independently. We give adults living with a disability the support and confidence to live safely and comfortably at home, and we do our best to help them find joy each day.
Whether it’s an elderly individual, disabled veteran, or someone with physical limitations, our disability care services can help them overcome challenges in their daily lives.
Private Care & Love Disability Care Services Includes:
- Our caregivers assist with everyday activities like bathing, personal hygiene and getting ready for the day.
- We provide companion care services such as conversation and company, meal preparation, light housekeeping and transportation assistance.
- Our travel companion programs offer support, safety and comfort while traveling.
Fall Prevention for Seniors
Private Care & Love Safe and Steady fall prevention program can help reduce your elderly loved one’s risk of slips, trips, and falls at home and decrease the chance of serious injuries that could result in hospitalization, loss of independence, permanent disability, or even death.
Private Care & Love compassionate caregivers are committed to helping seniors remain at home as they age, keeping them where they feel safest, happiest, and most comfortable. Fall prevention is an essential responsibility of Visiting Angels’ professional caregivers.
Why Fall Prevention Is Important For Your Senior
Falls are the top cause of injury death for seniors and can impede their ability to remain independent — making fall prevention a vital part of aging in place. Seniors are more likely to suffer falls than younger adults, with 1 in 3 seniors experiencing a severe fall every year. This is due to risk factors that are more common among older adults, including:- Decreased strength
- Poor coordination
- Limited mobility
- Reduced eyesight
- Hearing loss
- Stiff or painful joints
- Health complications
- Cognitive disorders
- Taking multiple medications
Alzheimer’s Care
At Private Care & Love, we understand that dementia affects everyone differently, and that’s why we tailor the care we provide to each individual’s needs.
Our dementia care services cater to those living with Alzheimer’s disease by offering safe and welcoming spaces with expert care on hand around the clock.
We work with experts so all colleagues are trained in line with the latest research, and our Dementia Nurses ensure that they work to the highest standards.
We help older people living with Alzheimer’s disease to continue living as independently as possible, so they have full and meaningful lives.
Our Dementia Advice
Alzheimer’s disease is the most common form of dementia. It’s a physical condition that occurs when the connections between nerve cells in the brain are lost.
The most common signs of Alzheimer’s are:
- Problems with memory, especially with recent events in the early stages
- Difficulty with thinking and language
While Alzheimer’s is a progressive condition, meaning it will gradually worsen over time, there are some drug treatments that can help boost the levels of a chemical that helps send signals between cells.
Dementia Care
Dementia affects different people in different ways, which is why we tailor your loved one’s care to their unique needs. Our Dementia Champions ensure teams are working to the highest standards.
We work with academic partners to ensure everything we do is informed by the latest research. We employ some of the most respected dementia experts to drive innovation in everything from the food and dining experience to finding new ways to empower our clients to have maximum control over their daily life and environment.
Symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease.
Memory problems are the most well-known symptom of Alzheimer’s disease, and this is common in the early stages. As the condition progresses, other symptoms may emerge.
The common symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease are:
- Forgetting names of people, places and objects
- Misplacing items
- Asking repetitive questions
- Anxiety or agitation
- Getting lost
- Impulsive behavior
- Delusions or paranoia
- Problems with speech or language
- Trouble sleeping
- Difficulty judging distances
- Seeing or hearing things
- Problems eating or swallowing (dysphagia)
- Weight loss
- Loss of speech
Respite Care Services
Private Care & Love realizes the positive difference short-term senior care can make. Professional and dedicated caregivers will take a flexible approach in planning and scheduling services to ensure you and your loved one receive the respite care you need.
In-home respite care from Private Care & Love can include a wide range of services, including companion care and personal care. Some of the most common tasks performed include:
- Laundry
- Light housekeeping
- Meal preparation
- Medication reminders
- Assistance with activities of daily living (such as dressing, grooming, and bathing)
If your loved one requires specialized care, such as Alzheimer’s care and dementia care, Private Care & Love professional caregivers with expertise in these areas will provide support. Private Care & Love respite care can also help reduce your risk of caregiver burnout without compromising the quality of in-home support your loved one receives
Respite Care
Caring for an aging loved one can be a huge full-time responsibility, especially when you have other family, work, and personal obligations that command your attention. What happens when you need to run important errands, go to a business meeting at the office, take a vacation, or need a breather?
What is Respite Care?
Respite care is short-term or temporary home care that provides much-needed relief or a break from a primary caregiver’s duties. Respite care helps families and primary caregivers who may need to leave briefly to work outside the home, take care of personal tasks, or manage other responsibilities.
Flexibility is one of the most significant benefits of respite care. You can usually schedule services for a few hours or overnight to a few days or longer. Private Care & Love caregivers can also perform in-home assistance routinely on a weekly, biweekly, or monthly basis.
You’ll also gain peace of mind knowing your loved one is in capable and experienced hands—even for a short time.
Wound Care
Wound care means the cleaning, closing and care of an open injury. Careful wound management is particularly important in case of complicated injuries or poor healing especially to Elder people. Here you can read all about the basic principles of wound care, how to treat a wound at home and when it is advisable to see a health care practitioner for further treatment.
In the event of an acute, chronic or critical wound, whether due to surgery, a chronic condition or a trauma, you can count on our highly specialized Wound care Service to assist you in the comfort of your home. You can receive a visit from our nurses directly in your home, hotel room, office, or any other suitable place.
Our team is registered and highly experienced independent nurses and Care Givers, provide expert wound care for all types of skin injuries ranging from chronic to open and post-surgical wounds, thanks to their extensive knowledge in all areas of wound care management. private nurse for dressing
Our wound care team will check the wound for any signs of infection and dress the wound to ensure an optimal healing environment, and will treat your wound according to your conditions and following any specific instructions provided by your doctor.
Private Care & Love wound care service is available 24/7 including holidays. Appointments can be arranged on the same day or according to your needs. If the wound dressing needs to be repeated on a regular basis, a tailored treatment plan will be developed for you and we can send you the same nurse and organize a schedule of home visits in advance, at a time that is convenient for you.
For enquires you can contact our team any day of the week, directly through our online booking service.
Wound Care and Dressing Treatments We Offer:
- Surgical Wound Care
- Vascular Ulcers
- Diabetic Wounds
- Cuts & Bruises
- Trauma & Burns
- Suture Dressing
- Bed Sores & Pressure Ulcers
PEG TUBE / GASTROSTOMY CARE.
Gastrostomy care helps people with a feeding tube to live independently and confidently. Gastrostomy is a term used to describe a surgical opening made directly into the stomach. This artificial opening is introduced to help people who experience difficulty swallowing food and liquids. A discreet plastic peg (percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy) tube or button directly inserted into the opening allows for food and liquids, as well as medicines, to enter the stomach.
- Help with feeding: We can help prepare and administer food and fluid through daily feeding tube care, taking dietary requirements into account
- Managing your feeding tube: As well as helping with feeding, your Care Giver can also assist with cleaning, flushing and connecting your feeding tube.
- Personal care: Your Care Giver can help keep the skin around the tube clean and healthy, as well as assisting with toileting, bathing and dressing.
- Support around the home: If you’d benefit from having an extra pair of hands to help with the chores, your Care Giver will always be happy to assist.
- Companionship: Enthusiastic and friendly, our Care Giver are never too busy for a quick chat and are always there to offer emotional support.
- Medication support: All of our Care Giver are expertly trained to assist with prescriptions, including helping you to organize and administer your medication.
- When you opt for PEG tube feeding delivered by a Care Giver employed by Private Care & Love, it’s designed to cater to you and you alone. Our expert nursing teams recognize that PEG care circumstances vary from person-to-person. We take into account your requirements to ensure you receive the levels of gastrostomy tube feeding care you need.
Directly employed by us
We directly employ all of our Care Givers, so we take full responsibility for managing their workload, maintaining their wellbeing and paying them
Kind and compassionate: At Private Care & Love, we have a very specific recruitment process which means we only hire the most kind, empathetic Care Givers to our teamsAll our gastrostomy tube care services are delivered by Care Givers who are fully trained in personal care routines. We put all of our Care Givers through significant selection procedures before inviting them to join our team. Our customers love their Private Care & Love Care Givers because they are:
- Expertly trained and fully vetted: Every Care Giver receives our industry-renowned training which equips them to provide expert peg-gastrostomy care, and all of them are approved
- Kind and compassionate: At Private Care & Love, we have a very specific recruitment process which means we only hire the most kind, empathetic Care Givers to our teams
- Directly employed by us: We directly employ all of our Care Givers, so we take full responsibility for managing their workload, maintaining their wellbeing and paying themAll our gastrostomy tube care services are delivered by Care Givers who are fully trained in personal care routines. We put all of our Care Givers through significant selection procedures before inviting them to join our team. Our customers love their Private Care & Love Care Givers because they are:
- Expertly trained and fully vetted: Every Care Giver receives our industry-renowned training which equips them to provide expert peg-gastrostomy care, and all of them are approved
