Personal and nursing care

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Overview

You can get personal and nursing care if you need support to live at home.

Personal care is help with things like:

• bathing, showering, hair washing, shaving, brushing your teeth, and nail care
• going to the toilet, catheter and stoma care, skin care, incontinence laundry and bed changing
• eating, special diets, and food preparation
• mobility support
• counselling, behaviour management, psychological support and reminding devices
• taking medication (like eye drops), application of creams and lotions, simple dressings and oxygen therapy
• getting dressed, surgical appliances, prostheses, mechanical and manual aids, help getting in and out of bed and using hoists

For nursing care, you will need a qualified nurse to help you. For example, a nurse will give injections or help to manage pressure sores.