Family Services

Extra Care provides a number of different services to people with varying levels of need and circumstances. Services range from help with intimate personal care through to time of for family carers.

Waking Night Help Services
Extra Care provides a careworker to take over the role of the family carer during the overnight period to allow the carer to have a night of uninterrupted sleep.

Dementia Services
Specialist services providing individually planned relief programmes for carers of dementia sufferers. These services are usually provided in the form of a morning, an afternoon or evening to enable the family carer to have a break.

Intensive Domiciliary
Support Schemes Designed to assist very highly dependent people either to remain in their own home or to return home from hospital or residential care.

Mobile Night Help Services
Designed to meet the needs of people who require short inputs of service during the night. The careworkers call at a pre-arranged time usually to assist the client with personal care. Careworkers make up to 20 calls per night to vulnerable adults.

Rapid Response
A service that provides a swift response to the prevention and management of health and social care crises by providing short-term support and care in collaboration with existing services. Rapid Response will provide care for up to two weeks.

Family Carer Training Programme                            Provides training and support which is designed around the needs, circumstances, preferences and learning style of each individual carer.

Supporting People Services
Designed to provide a flexible, practical service to individuals to help them meet their housing needs and to live independently at home. Extra Care is accredited with the Northern Ireland Housing Executive to provide Floating Support services.

Education and Training
Plays a central role in the range of services provided by Extra Care with comprehensive programmes of training delivered both in local venues and in our specifically designed training suites at Belfast, Downpatrick, Drogheda, Ballymena and Enniskillen.

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For more information about how to gain access to services please contact the local offices