Live-in Care in Cambridge
A dedicated carer living in your home, so you can stay where your life is.
For many families, the moment arrives when short visits are no longer enough but a care home still feels wrong. Live in care is the middle ground. One trained carer moves into the home and supports the whole day, which means familiar rooms, familiar routines and your own bed.
What Is Live-in Care?
Live in care means a trained carer lives in the home with the person they support, on a rota agreed in advance. They are there through the day and overnight, providing help as it is needed rather than at fixed visit times.
It is not the same as 24 hour waking care. A live in carer sleeps at night and is available if needed. Where someone genuinely needs support throughout every night, we would discuss adding a waking night carer or a two carer arrangement.
Who Live-in Care Suits
- Someone advised to consider a care home who wants to stay at home
- A person whose needs have grown beyond several visits a day
- Couples who want to stay together rather than move into residential care
- Someone coming home from hospital who needs close support while they recover
- A person living with dementia who is disorientated by unfamiliar places
- Anyone with a much loved pet, garden or home they are not ready to leave
What a Live-in Carer Provides
Personal care and daily routine
Washing, bathing, dressing, grooming, continence support and help getting up and settling at night, at the pace the person sets.
Mobility and safety
Support with transfers, mobility aids, moving safely around the home and reducing falls risk, particularly at night.
Medication and health
Prompting or assisting with medication where assessed and permitted, monitoring wellbeing, and raising concerns with the GP, district nurse or family.
Meals and the household
Cooking meals the person actually likes, shopping, laundry, changing bedding and keeping the home clean and safe.
Life outside the house
Accompanying to appointments, the shops, the hairdresser or a walk, and helping keep friendships going.
Company and reassurance
Conversation, hobbies, games, and the reassurance of not being alone.
The Practical Side
What the carer needs
Their own furnished bedroom, storage space, bathroom access, wifi and food provision. This is a requirement, not a preference.
Breaks
Carers are entitled to a daily break of around two hours and to regular time off. We agree cover in advance, so there is never a gap.
Rotas
Carers work in placements of an agreed length, then hand over to a second regular carer. We keep the same small team wherever possible.
Handover
Every changeover includes a written and verbal handover covering routine, preferences and anything that has changed.
Live-in Care or a Care Home?
We do not publish live in care prices. We provide a written quote after the free assessment.
How We Arrange Live-in Care
- 1
Talk to our care team
An honest conversation about the situation, including whether live in care is genuinely the right answer.
- 2
Free home assessment
We visit, meet everyone involved, look at the home layout and the carer's room, and discuss routines, preferences and risks.
- 3
Your care plan and written quote
We set out what the placement covers, the break arrangement and the cost, in writing, before anything is agreed.
- 4
Carer matching
We match on skills, personality, language, interests and, where it matters, cooking. You meet the carer beforehand wherever possible.
- 5
Settling in and reviews
We check in during the first days, then review regularly and adjust as needs change.
Common Questions About Live-in Care
Talk It Through Before You Decide
Live in care is not right for everyone, and we will say so honestly if something else would suit better. Call our care team, or send a few details and we will call you back.
- 15 Deal Grove, Sawston, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire CB22 3DR
- 07917 611 425
- info@cambridgecareservices.co.uk
- Monday to Friday 09:30 to 21:00Saturday 10:00 to 15:00
Ask about live-in care
We will call you back during our opening hours.