Older people should be informed of their best products & services providers, according to Yorkshire care group

Specialist home care and dementia care provider, Carefound, have launched their own ‘Preferred Local Supplier’ programme in order to better inform older clients on their local options.

Announcing the first ‘preferred supplier’ as hand-prepared meals company COOK, director Oliver Stirk discusses the benefits he hopes the programme will have moving forwards.

He comments: “Our new Preferred Local Supplier programme is a list of organisations offering great services or products that we believe could be of benefit to the elderly people we support at home in Harrogate, Ripon and Wetherby.

“Our older community often finds it harder to find good local services, especially now that the Internet has become such a crucial part of this process. We want to ensure that our clients and their families not only have easy access to services on offer but can also get these at the best possible prices. Organisations that join the programme will need to offer a top quality, locally available product or service and will also need to agree some form of a discount for our clients.”

He continues: “We are very pleased to have formed a relationship with COOK as our first ‘preferred supplier’. They offer a great product in the local area and are a perfect example of the kind of organisations we are keen to bring on board. A number of our clients already purchase meals from COOK on a regular basis, and we have agreed that all elderly people we support will receive 10 per cent off purchases going forwards.”

Owner of COOK in Harrogate and Ilkey, Helen Foggitt, comments: “We are delighted to become Carefound Home Care’s first preferred supplier. At COOK our founding mantra was to cook using the same ingredients and techniques that you would use at home so everything looks and tastes homemade. Each dish has the name of the chef on it who prepared the meal and because freezing is nature’s way of preserving we don’t add any additives or preservatives to any of our meals. We are very particular about the ingredients that we use, ensuring the highest levels of quality and tractability – for example we can trace all our beef back to the farm, field and even the cow itself. In total we have over 150 different dishes to choose from, including meat, poultry, fish and vegetarian dishes as well as a large selection of Indian and Asian dishes and not forgetting our delicious selection of puddings and cakes. We also have a number of Gluten Free and Dairy Free dishes.”

Helen added, “We are now offering a home delivery service which covers the same geographical area as Carefound Home Care and clients can order by calling us or visiting our website. As a local business we pride ourselves on providing quality meals and a first class service and look forward to working closely with the team at Carefound Home Care.”