Personal and domestic care

Domestic care can include:

• changing or making beds
• laundry
• paying bills or getting money
• preparing light meals or snacks
• priority cleaning
• shopping or daily tasks

Personal care can include help with:

• getting dressed and undressed
• getting up and going to bed
• going to the toilet and managing continence
• emptying commodes
• palliative and terminal care (working with community nurses)
• prompting to take medication
• skin and hair care
• washing, bathing, showering, shaving, make-up
• artificial feeding
• catheter care – changing of bags, monitoring output
• eye or ear drops
• ileostomy and colostomy care – changing of bags

It doesn't include help with activities that need the skills and expertise of medical professionals including:

• ear syringing
• injections
• programming of syringe drivers
• removing or replacing urinary catheters
• bowel evacuation
• toenail and fingernail cutting and filing