family run care — because your family deserves the best
We have looked after this young lady since January 2008. She has profound multiple learning and physical difficulties and needs 24hr care and support. This includes taking her out for day trips and providing stimulus for her whilst she is at home and tending to her every needs.
Cygnet Staff have been specifically trained to look after this young person and are now looking forward to next year when they will be taking her on a 3 day residential course with a mixture of activities that she will enjoy.
We also offer days out in the beautiful Devon Countryside for people with learning difficulties. They are able to help a skilled workforce with rural tasks such as repairing a bridge over a stream or, if they prefer, spend some or all of the time on the beach or having a picnic lunch and then going home again! A suitably and fully trained member of Staff is personally assigned to them for the whole of their day. Alternatively, if their regular Carer or family member would like to accompany them this can be easily arranged.
I am writing to thank you for your very great kindness and loving care that you gave to my
Sister. She had great respect for you all and appreciated the help and encouragement given to
her in the last days.
How We Can Help
Cygnet Care understands that every person is an individual in their own right and therefore, their needs and expectations are special to them.
We try, to the best of our ability, to be as flexible and helpful as possible. The variety of services that we cover and have been asked to cover, is wide–ranging.
A Client may start with us, just requiring a little support with 
their shopping and laundry and then, as the months slip by and mobility or, perhaps their memory begins to fail, we help them at bathing and personal care, or pop in for a quick, re-assuring visit on long winter evenings when Spring still seems a long way coming.
If Clients return from hospital and need temporary or permanent care during the night or if their family go on holiday and night care is required whilst they are away, then this can be arranged.
Palliative Care is given by a dedicated and sensitive team of Carers who specialise in this field. Every support is offered and no effort is spared in helping to ease and guide our Clients and their families through this period of their lives. Close collaboration with Hospice and Medical Staff ensures that all care given, is of the best and will provide continuity in the most effective ways of keeping our Clients pain free and peaceful to the end.
Cygnet Carers will help Clients to be able to remain in their own homes for longer, or perhaps, for the rest of their lives. There is very little that we will not undertake to do, unless the task might harm either the Client or the Carer. We have even put out hay for Shetland ponies, one cold night, when their Mistress unexpectedly went into hospital!
Continence Care is discreetly given, including help, if required, with stomas, colostomies and catheters of all types.
We, at Cygnet, are very conscious of the need of tempting, wholesome and nutritious meals. Carers, who all hold food hygiene certificates, will help prepare and serve meals that may tempt the poorest of appetites.
If families are far away, or work prevents taking a loved one to an appointment for out-patient clinics, or if our Client is admitted to hospital, then Cygnet will arrange for their Carer to escort and visit them. Washing and ironing during stays in hospital can also be carried out.
Cygnet Carers are trained to support and enable those people suffering from all forms of dementia to remain living safely and happily at home. It is recognised that continuity of surroundings and care, can help to reduce levels of confusion which, in turn, limits the distress that is so often felt by families, when their loved ones are diagnosed with dementia.
Please call us on 01271 858271 to discuss your requirements in complete confidence.
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