Personal Care Services

The Florence Nightingale agency provides a wide range of personal care services to ensure the well-being, safety and security of our clients. 

This category of care includes services and activities related to assisting the client with the day-to-day activities of life.

Included in this category of services are:

• Developing personal skills such as planning, personal orientation, task completion, emotional stability and communication.
• Giving support to protect the client from further injury in their normal home environment.
• Coaching in activities of daily living, in conveying and recieving information and in interacting with other people.
• Assistance with eating, drinking, observing/monitoring intake, assisting with adherance with special diets and preparing food in terms of texture or soft diets.
• Assistance with personal grooming activities, including hair maintenance and teeth cleaning.
• Assistance with dressing and undressing, transferring into and out of bath or shower, washing and drying, hair washing, oberving/monitoring condition of skin/scalp.
• Physically assisting with the client's mobility inside and outside their home and away from home for the purpose of facilitating any activities related to the client's care.
• Assistance with transfers to and from toilet/commode and hygiene activities, assistance with use of appliances and aids such as day/night urinary collection bags,and associated hygiene.
• Transferring from chair to bed/ bed to chair ensuring safe mobility around the home, ensure such aids such as walking sticks, frames and wheelchairs are maintained an safe.
• Assisting with personal tasks where the client attends a tertiary educational institution.