Independent Care Advice – Grace Consulting

Are you finding it difficult to choose the right care?

  • Help and advice on finding the care service that is right for you
  • Independent care advice from a team of experts
  • Choose from a number of care service options

Care Advice

If you're finding it difficult to choose the right long term care, let Grace Consulting help you to make the decision.

Trying to decide what kind of support and care is needed by you or a loved one can be a confusing and stressful time. Assessing whether residential care, sheltered accommodation or at home care is most appropriate is a difficult decision. Once that decision is made, finding a suitable provider, and one that fits within your financial requirements, can prove time consuming and complex. To help you with these decisions, engage has teamed up with Grace Consulting, a team of experts offering independent advice on choosing the care that is right for you.

Grace Consulting offers a full range of services, whether you are looking for general advice to get you started and make sure that you have considered all of your options, or a more in depth care advice service; from telephone consultations to a home visit and personalised care search from one of the expert Grace advisers.

A few facts about Grace Consulting

  • a founding member of the Association of Independent Care Advisers
  • over 30 years experience in care advice
  • expert knowledge of care providers. Including Care at Home, Care Homes with Nursing, Dual Registered Homes, Sheltered Accommodation and Nursing Homes.

Before you make any important decisions, Grace will always fully explain the different levels of service available from them and the associated costs, and will be there to support you through the decision making process.

Range of services provided by Grace Consulting

1. GraceCare Guidance - Discussion and General Advice Service

We understand that getting started on finding appropriate care can be a difficult and time consuming task. GraceCare Guidance starts with a Grace Care Adviser calling you at a suitable prearranged time to discuss your situation. The Adviser will give you general guidance to clarify any difficulties you may have in identifying and sourcing appropriate care. The Adviser will send you relevant fact sheets and other information, which will act as a useful first step to finding care, providing you have the time to carry out your own search.

This value care advice service is available for just £99.

2. GraceCare Search - Consultation, Care Advice and Care Search

Grace Consulting understand that many people require more in-depth assistance and this level of care advice is designed to provide just that. The service starts with you booking a telephone Consultation with a Grace Care Adviser for a time convenient to you. The Adviser will listen to your needs and wishes, discuss your situation in detail and ask detailed questions in order to fully understand what you require. After the Consultation, the Adviser will research appropriate care providers, and then send you a report with recommendations, including for example a short-list of care homes that meet your needs and wishes. Included will be information on any current vacancies if required, or the availability of home carers, together with brochures and costs. The Care Adviser will remain available for further follow up, advice and reports until you have found the best answer.

This comprehensive care advice service is available for just £375.

3. GraceCare Visit - Home Visit, Care Advice and Care Search

Grace Consulting realise that many people like to discuss such important decisions on a face to face basis, particularly if more than one person needs to be involved. GraceCare Visit offers the same comprehensive service as GraceCare Search but with a Care Adviser being on hand at a prearranged convenient location for you. This service is also often of value when the person requiring care wants to be more actively involved in the care planning. Once an initial meeting has been arranged, a detailed face-to-face Consultation can then take place, with research, report and continued support carried out in the same manner as for the Grace Care Search (above).

This comprehensive face to face care advice service is available for just £549.

If you would like to find out more about the help and support services detailed above, please Click here and a member of the Grace Consulting care advice team will be in touch.