North Yorkshire home care provider celebrates first year

Home care provider, Carefound Home Care (Harrogate) celebrated its first anniversary of helping older people remain in their homes in the Harrogate, Ripon and Wetherby areas.

Local MP, Julian Smith and community organisations including Alzheimer’s Society, St Michael’s Hospice, Dementia Forward and North Yorkshire County Council joined friends and families helped by Carefound at the event.

They were told of the specialist dementia care training introduced across the company following its recent collaboration with the Contented Dementia Trust.

Oliver Stirk, director at Carefound said: “It was great to celebrate the achievements of our home care team over the last year. We have established a fantastic group of people here at Carefound and the dedication, professionalism and hard work of our home carers is what enables us to offer excellent levels of care to our clients and the families we help.

“When we opened in 2011, we were keen to ensure that we could be as flexible as possible in meeting the needs of our clients - it was therefore important for us to be our own entity and not part of a wider organisation or franchise.

“On reflection, this was a great decision and has enabled us to take innovative steps such as developing our specialist dementia care service based on the Contented Dementia Trust’s SPECAL method.

“We now look forward to launching quarterly Understanding Dementia events in the New Year which will be an opportunity for families to not only learn more about helping people with dementia but also share experiences with others who face similar difficulties.”

Mr Stirk added: “The event presented a great opportunity to build links amongst the different organisations that help our local elderly population.

“We believe that although the existence of a high quality care service such as Carefound is going to be key in enabling people to retain independence in the community for longer, no individual or organisation can achieve this alone.

“A huge part of what we do is to work closely with all those involved in the care of a client which can include relatives, neighbours, health and social care professionals, charities, lawyers and financial advisors.”

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