Stroke Care at Home London | Stroke Recovery Live-in Care

Stroke Care & Recovery at Home in London

Recovering from a stroke can be a difficult, uncertain time, and coming home from hospital often raises as many questions as it answers. Our stroke care service provides a dedicated live-in carer who supports recovery at home - helping with daily routines, encouraging progress with rehabilitation exercises, and simply being there through what can be a slow and sometimes frustrating process.

We're an introductory home care agency rather than a clinical provider, so we don't deliver physiotherapy or speech therapy ourselves - our carers support and encourage whatever programme has been set by your physiotherapist, occupational therapist or speech and language therapist, and we liaise closely with that team.

What's Included

Support with moving safely around the home and reducing fall risk

Encouragement with rehabilitation exercises set by a physiotherapist or occupational therapist

Patient support with communication where a stroke has affected speech

Help with personal care, meals and daily routines

Liaison with stroke specialists, physiotherapists and speech and language therapists

Emotional support through a recovery that often has good days and harder ones

Recovering from a stroke at home

Recovery from a stroke often continues for months after leaving hospital, and much of it happens through repetition in everyday life - practising walking, using an affected arm, speaking and swallowing. A live-in carer can encourage those exercises little and often throughout the day, in line with the programme set by your NHS stroke team, physiotherapist, occupational therapist and speech and language therapist.

Carers also help with the practical effects of stroke: personal care with one hand or limited balance, preparing meals of the right texture if swallowing is affected, managing fatigue, and noticing changes in mood, which are common after a stroke.

Care straight from a London stroke unit

London has dedicated hyper-acute stroke units at hospitals including St George's, King's College, the Royal London, Charing Cross, University College Hospital, Northwick Park, Princess Royal University Hospital and Queen's Hospital in Romford. If your relative is being treated at one of these and a discharge date is approaching, call us early so that care can be in place from day one.

Frequently Asked Questions

In many cases we can arrange care within days, including for a hospital discharge, though it depends on carer availability and the assessment of your needs - call us as early as possible to discuss timing.

Yes, your carer can encourage and support you with a rehabilitation programme set by your physiotherapist or occupational therapist, though they won't set or change that programme themselves - that stays with your clinical team.

Your carer will be patient and take the time communication needs, and we'll liaise with a speech and language therapist if one is involved in your care.

Not necessarily - some people need intensive support for a period of recovery and then step down to lighter support or respite care, and we can adjust the care plan as your needs change.

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