Live-in Care in Ealing

Ealing • West London

24-hour care at home in Ealing with a live-in carer

With live-in care, your relative stays in their Ealing home and a dedicated Care Professional lives there too, helping through the day and at night. In this corner of West London it is the usual alternative to a care home, with one person's attention, familiar rooms and their own routine. Ealing has long been called the Queen of the Suburbs, with quiet leafy roads and many older residents who have lived in the same house for decades. Protocol has worked in care and staffing since 2016, and our CQC registration for personal care dates from 2019.

There is no high-street branch on The Broadway. Ealing placements are handled by our London team, a short drive away at Highview House, 167 Station Road, Edgware HA8 7JU. Every person we introduce has completed enhanced DBS and right-to-work checks, references and training before they ever start, and a consultant is reachable around the clock for a family in Pitshanger or South Ealing.

What live-in care in Ealing includes

In most families one person lives nearest, and it is that person who ends up carrying the arrangement: the calls, the medication, the drive over when something goes wrong at nine in the evening. Live-in care changes that arithmetic. A Care Professional moves into the spare room and is in the house at night as well as through the day, so the nearest relative stops being the default answer to everything and those further off are not making emergency journeys.

Live-in care in Ealing suits people who would rather stay in the home they know than move into a nursing home, whether that home is in Northfields or Hanwell, and it can sit alongside private nursing where there is a clinical need. What stops is the rota you have been keeping in your head.

• ✓ A dedicated live-in Care Professional in the home
• ✓ Round-the-clock support, including overnight reassurance
• ✓ Personal care, washing, dressing and continence support
• ✓ Medication management and prompting
• ✓ Meal planning, cooking and nutrition
• ✓ Mobility support and help avoiding falls
• ✓ Dementia, Parkinson's and complex care
• ✓ Companionship, hobbies and days out

How a 24-hour live-in arrangement fits around an ordinary week is set out in our guide to live-in care.

Staying in Ealing rather than moving

Leaving a long-time home in Ealing Common or off Pitshanger Lane is a big step, and it is not always needed. With a carer living in, your relative keeps their bedroom, their garden and the GP who knows them. The Sunday walk through Walpole Park past Pitzhanger Manor can still happen, with someone alongside. Couples can be supported together, so a husband and wife do not have to live apart. Before deciding, it may help to read our care home comparison.

Asking Ealing Council for help

Ealing Council decides who is eligible for council-funded care. You can start with a self-referral form, or a separate form if you are acting for a relative, from the council's contacting adult social care page. A GP can refer too. The council offers a fuller assessment when it needs to understand someone's needs in more detail. On your rights, the NHS page about a needs assessment is clear.

Unpaid carers who look after an adult living in the borough can get advice and support from Ealing's carers service. Where an Ealing resident's needs are mainly health-related, NHS Continuing Healthcare may meet the cost. Fees for live-in care around W5 and W13 rise with dementia or nurse-led care; see paying for care and live-in care costs.

Home from Ealing Hospital

Ealing Hospital in Southall is run by London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust and takes many of the borough's admissions. A live-in carer can be matched while your relative is still on the ward. Once home, they can help with tablets, washing and moving about safely. Our Ealing home care page covers the other services we arrange here.

Mansion flats, terraces and a spare room

Ealing's homes run from mansion flats and terraces around Ealing Broadway to Edwardian houses near Cleveland Road and bungalows towards Hanwell. A live-in carer needs their own room, so a two-bedroom flat can work as well as a family house. Where the bathroom is upstairs, we check the stairs and handrails during the assessment visit.

Rest breaks and nights in Ealing

Every live-in carer should have a daily break and a full night's sleep. That protects your relative as much as the carer. If nights at home are unsettled, mention it when we assess, and we will talk through what night support would look like.

Separately, our REC-affiliated agency places NMC-registered nurses and support staff with West London care homes and NHS teams; see staffing services.

Areas of Ealing we cover for live-in care

We arrange live-in care in these parts of the borough, across the W5 and W13 postcodes:

• Ealing Broadway
• Ealing Common
• West Ealing
• South Ealing
• North Ealing
• Northfields
• Pitshanger
• Montpelier
• Hanger Hill
• Hanwell
• Argyle
• Walpole