Caring for a loved one can be demanding. Visionwest provides full respite services so you can take a well earned break.
Visionwest Home Healthcare provides personalised support services such as personal care and household assistance that give caregivers valuable time to rest and recharge while ensuring their loved ones continue to receive the highest standard of support.
Our Support Workers are experienced, fully trained, and able to quickly adapt to your specific needs or those of your loved one. They are respectful, caring, professional, and reliable, and have access to Visionwest’s wider network of Home Healthcare Services to provide seamless, wraparound care.
Taking regular breaks from caregiving is essential for well-being and preventing burnout. Talk to us today about respite support that works for you.
How Respite Care works
We start by getting to know your loved one – their routines, preferences, and care needs – to make the transition as smooth as possible. While you take time for yourself, our Support Workers provide reliable, compassionate care.
You can arrange respite care as a one-off or set it up regularly, depending on what works best for you.
Support to give caregivers a break
Respite care can be about providing a person’s usual carer with a break, or it can be about sharing the load of the day-to-day responsibility of caring for an older adult or a person living with a disability.
Whether you need a break from providing care due to other responsibilities, or you just want to share the load, we can help. Talk to us today.
Who can access Respite Care?
If you are the primary caregiver for a disabled person, someone recovering for an injury, or an older person, you may be eligible to some funded support to take a break.
Respite Care is usually allocated by NASCs and funded by Te Whatu Ora: Health NZ, MSD Disability Support Services, and ACC.
The type of respite you might get depend on your needs, the needs of the person you care for, and what is available in your area.
In-home Respite Care Resources
- Types of in-home support services that are available for older people and others.
Older people, those with chronic health conditions, or people with mental health or addiction issues, may be able to get funded support at home.
- Getting in-home healthcare support.
Find out if you qualify for government-funded home help and the support services you may get after your needs are assessed – ,if you have an ongoing illness, injury, age-related health problem or you’re a disabled person.
- Needs Assessment and Service Co-ordination Association.
Find your local NASC centre.