Personal Care

Our Approach to Personal Care

At Carlisle Care:
✅ We create individualised care plans that respect personal preferences, cultural values, and daily routines.
✅ We work at the client’s pace, encouraging independence wherever possible.
✅ We ensure care is consistent and reliable, with carers who build genuine, trusting relationships.
✅ We always promote choice and dignity, involving clients in decisions about their care.

Personal Care Can Include:

Bathing & Hygiene

  • Support with baths, showers, strip washes or bed baths

  • Assistance with washing hair, shaving, and grooming

  • Help with applying lotions or creams

Dressing

  • Assistance in choosing appropriate clothing

  • Support with putting on and taking off clothes, including compression stockings if needed

Toileting & Continence Care

  • Help with using the toilet, commodes, or continence aids

  • Support with catheter or stoma care (non-clinical)

  • Maintaining dignity and comfort at all times

Mobility & Transfers

  • Safe assistance with moving around the home

  • Help with getting in and out of bed or chairs

  • Use of mobility equipment or aids where required

Oral & Personal Grooming

  • Assistance with brushing teeth or denture care

  • Nail care (non-clinical) and basic skincare