Many of our customers have been surprised by the range of financial assistance available to help fund care. We provide a free advocacy service to help you negotiate the blizzard of forms and applications necessary when considering how you can make home care affordable.

Our need for support can increase rapidly in the case of a sudden hospitalisation or illness, or gradually, perhaps over months or years as our ability to care for ourselves naturally diminishes with age.

When increasing need for support is gradual, it may be hard to define exactly when and what support would be effective and required. The free Gracious Care home care needs assessment can be transformational. We take account of all aspects affecting the customers situation, including, but not restricted to: environmental impediments; physical and cognitive capability; proximity and availability of friends and relatives; suitability of existing aids. We frequently signpost local authority and other services to our customers when these would be helpful, using our local knowledge. And if home care is required, we will be able to recommend the appropriate level of assistance and make recommendations concerning available funding.

Of course, you might have access to sufficient resources for care from your private means, but that shouldn't stop you drawing on freely available allowances from central funds, to which we've all contributed through our taxes and to which we're all entitled when we need care.

Whatever the circumstances, it can be difficult to accept that we aren't as able as we once were. Even a minimal level of help can make a world of difference. We can use our many years of experience to help make the, perhaps daunting, prospect of jumping through the those funding hoops and we'll be beside you every step of the way.