Dementia Care at Home with

Sylvian Care South East London

Specialist In-Home Dementia Support for Your Loved Ones

At Sylvian Care South East London, we understand that familiar surroundings can make a world of difference for someone living with dementia. The comforting scent of a favourite meal, a cherished family photo, or simply knowing where the light switches are – these everyday experiences provide much-needed emotional support and help maintain dignity.

Our highly trained Care Experts deliver compassionate and responsive dementia care in the comfort of your loved one’s own home, supporting not only their care needs but also their identity, preferences, and routine. Whether it's early-stage support or advanced live-in dementia care, our professional carers are here to help you and your family navigate this journey.

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What Is Dementia Care?

Dementia care refers to a personalised, skilled care approach designed to support people who have been given a dementia diagnosis. With over 200 subtypes of dementia including Alzheimer’s disease, vascular dementia, frontotemporal dementia, Lewy Body dementia, and mixed dementia, the effects can vary significantly between individuals.

This type of care addresses common challenges such as symptoms of memory loss, sleep disturbance, confusion, changes in behaviour, and reduced mobility. Our trained team provides condition-led care and tailored assistance to meet the evolving physical, emotional, and psychological needs of each client.

At Sylvian Care, we don’t believe in one-size-fits-all solutions. Our approach is rooted in personalised care plans developed through a comprehensive care needs assessment, taking into account medical history, preferences, personality, and the family’s input.

Why Choose Dementia Care at Home?

For someone living with dementia, moving into an unfamiliar environment like a traditional care home can be unsettling and disorienting. Staying in a familiar environment helps support cognitive function and preserves independence.

With in-home care, your loved one benefits from:

  • Continuity of routine and environment

  • One-to-one support from a consistent Care Team

  • Customised personal care and meal preparation

  • Medication support using dosette boxes, automatic pill dispensers, and reminder devices

  • Use of assistive technology and memory aids like labels and signs, memory books, and clocks with large faces

  • Support with mobility aids, such as raised toilet seats, bath seats, transfer benches, and walking surfaces to reduce the risk of falls

  • Emotional companionship and respite sitting services for family carers

  • Professional help managing sleep disturbance, incontinence (with support from a continence adviser), and mood changes

We also work with trusted partners and resources such as the Alzheimer’s Society, Skills for Care, and Independent Age to ensure our care is continually informed, compassionate, and of the highest standard.

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Types of Dementia Care Services from Sylvian Care South East London

Personalised Daily Home Care

We offer hourly home care support for dementia clients who may need help with daily tasks. This can include assistance with bathing, dressing, nutrition, hydration, and personal care services. We also support communication, routine reinforcement, and safe navigation of the home using tools like hearing aids, light sensors, and increased natural light exposure to regulate the body clock.

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Specialist Live-In Dementia Care

Our live-in care services provide round-the-clock support for those who require a higher level of assistance. A dedicated personal assistant lives with your loved one, offering companionship, safety, and skilled care tailored to complex needs – all while avoiding hospital admissions.

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Night-Time and Respite Care

Night-time confusion and restlessness are common challenges for people with dementia. Our night-time care ensures safety and comfort overnight. Families can also benefit from flexible respite care, giving unpaid carers time to rest and recover.

How Sylvian Care Ensures Quality and Safety

All Sylvian Care services are regulated by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) and delivered by carers who have completed specialist training in dementia support and security checks. We also work closely with the community mental health team to ensure joined-up care when multiple professionals are involved.

Our support planning includes:

  • Risk assessments and home safety checklists

  • Use of mobility aids and fall-prevention strategies

  • Visual aids such as LCD displays, labels and signs, and reminder clocks

  • Accessible kitchen tools like kettle tippers for safety

  • Promoting access to outdoor spaces and fresh air with suitable walking surfaces and secure outdoor space

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Planning for the Future

Starting with a Carer’s Assessment

Caring for someone with dementia can be physically and emotionally exhausting. You may be entitled to a carer's assessment through your local authority, which could lead to practical support and access to respite services.

Lasting Power of Attorney (LPA)

We advise discussing legal and financial preparations early in the dementia journey. A Lasting Power of Attorney ensures that decisions can be made in your loved one’s best interest should they lose mental capacity. This includes:

  • Ordinary Power of Attorney for temporary arrangements

  • Lasting Power of Attorney for long-term planning covering health, welfare, and financial decisions

Understanding Your Care Options

Our advisors are here to guide you through every step – from understanding care options, applying for a personal budget, and selecting the most suitable home health care agency or care pathway. Whether you’re looking for long-term care, day care, or respite care, we can help.

Consistency and Compassion: The Sylvian Difference

Unlike many care agencies, we focus on assigning a primary professional carer to each client to maintain familiarity. This is especially important in dementia care, where the continuity of care is vital. Our carers build trust and learn each person’s habits, preferences, and memory triggers, helping to reduce anxiety and confusion.

With Sylvian Care South East London, your loved one won’t have to explain their routine to a different face each day.

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Real Help, When You Need It

We know that seeking dementia care can be overwhelming, especially in the early days following a dementia diagnosis. That’s why our process is designed to be simple, supportive, and stress-free.

Call us to:

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Arrange a care needs assessment

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Explore your eligibility for funding support or a personal budget

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Discuss options including live-in care, respite care, and personal care support

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Frequently Asked Questions

  • Consistency of the visiting carers is something we pride ourselves with. Unlike other care companies that allocate 3-4 carers to visit a client, we allocate one main carer that visits every day except their day off when a cover carer replaces them. This aspect is crucial, especially for someone living with dementia. Having to adapt to new routines and someone visiting every day is hard enough for your loved ones. Receiving personal care from a different carer every day that does not know your parents’ routines and their environment can become a challenge.

  • It’s important to make plans at the earliest possible stage so that you and your loved one have a plan of action and understand what choices you have. Most older people are keen to stay in the familiar surroundings of their own homes, and thanks to an increase in elderly care options and assistive technologies, home care is now a viable alternative to a nursing home.

  • You will need to appoint someone to have Power of Attorney over your loved one’s financial affairs, for when he or she becomes unable to deal with them. Confusion over money can be an early symptom, so appointing someone to take charge of the bank account and savings is a vital step in ensuring that your relative is not defrauded by anyone.

    There are two specific types of Power of Attorney, one of them being Lasting Power of Attorney which is the one appropriate for a dementia diagnosis.

    Ordinary Power of Attorney: Ordinary Power of Attorney covers decisions about financial affairs and is valid whilst a person has mental capacity. This is suitable for those who need cover on a temporary basis such as during a hospital stay.

    Lasting Power of Attorney (LPA): A LPA comes into effect if a person loses mental capacity and covers decisions about financial affairs or health and care. An LPA is set up if an individual wants to make sure they are covered in the future.

  • Make their home as safe as possible, by installing grab rails in bathrooms, updating or installing smoke detectors and minimising slip and trip hazards. Some families use wearable GPS tracking devices to keep an eye on relatives who might be prone to wandering, and if this is the case, it might be worth improving home security too.

  • Whether your loved one needs a lot of support or just a little looking after, we offer flexible, cost-effective, hourly care tailored especially to them, even at short notice. We’ll introduce your relative to our trained carers when they need it. Even at 24 hours notice if urgent.

  • Peace of mind needn’t cost the earth. With us, in fact our hourly rates start from £26 pounds per hour and we provide 30 minutes minimum visits.

    We will be there to offer advice about how to make payment a little easier for you. So that’s one less thing to worry about.

Explore Our Other Services

At Sylvian Care South East London, our friendly team has a commitment to enhancing the quality of life for our clients goes beyond just home care. We offer a comprehensive suite of excellent care services tailored to meet the diverse needs of individuals and families.

All of our services offer an invaluable resource that caters to the diverse needs of individuals requiring assistance, whether due to age, illness, or disability. The changes that our services have had on the lives of our clients are significant, including enhanced emotional well-being, improved safety, and the flexibility to tailor care plans that best suit individual needs and promote a higher quality of life.

All of our home care services meets the standards of the Care Quality Commission.