Information & Advice

Personal care assistants provide personal care such as washing, dressing and incontinence care. They can also offer support with cooking, cleaning and administering/prompting medication.

A personal care plan is a support plan devised by either a health care professional, the client themselves or family member of the client. It provides the carer with a detailed explanation of how the client wishes to be supported.

Personal care usually refers to assistance with washing, bathing, dressing, continence care, oral hygiene and shaving

Personal care is a broad term that usually refers to assistance with personal hygiene – washing, dressing, grooming, assistance with using the toilet, continence care and shaving.

A personal care assistant is somebody who is employed to provide support to a client. This support ranges from personal care, domestic support, continence care, cooking and accessing the community