Shopping & Meal Preparation

A balanced, nutritional diet is essential for good health.

How we can help with meals and shopping?

React Home Care understand that having the right diet and eating delicious and nutritious meals is an essential part of maintaining mental and physical wellbeing. We can assist our care recipients with all aspects of shopping and meal preparation, and we can incorporate these tasks within the agreed, bespoke care plan. From cooking nutritional daily meals, to picking up a few essential items, to a weekly shop, one of our compassionate and caring Caregivers will be there every step of the way to help, allowing you to stay independent in the comfort of your own home.

At React Home Care we believe in letting our care recipients have control over their food choices and being able to feed themselves if possible. We will always listen to you or your loved ones needs. All our experienced and well-matched Carers undertake a training course which includes food hygiene and nutrition which enables us to provide support with the knowledge of what nutrition is required.

Some of the ways we can assist: 

  • Taking you or your loved one to the shops
  • Cooking nutritious and delicious meals
  • Carrying bags and putting the groceries away at home 
  • Doing the shopping without you or your loved one being present, and bringing it back to put away

Follow our four-step guide to getting the right care solution

Find your Local Office

Enter your postcode or location to find the most convenient care office for you.

Arrange an At-Home Meeting

Speak to a friendly member of our Care Team at your Local Office to arrange a complimentary Care Assessment.

Agree your Bespoke Care Plan

We work with you to create a bespoke Care Plan that is tailored to yours or your loved ones needs.

Your Home Care Begins!

We identify and match a carer to you and your needs so that the required care and support can begin to take place.

Family values are at the heart of everything we do

It’s unrealistic to expect you or other family members to be able to provide your loved one’s every meal during the course of the day. To support this popular request for support, we offer a personal service for food shopping and meal preparation.

All our experienced and well-matched Carers undertake a training course which includes food hygiene and nutrition. This enables us to provide support with the knowledge of what nutrition is required.

Let us help give you a break

We can assist our Service Users going out to the shops, carrying bags and putting the groceries away at home or do the shopping without the Service User being present to either get their weekly shop or just the essentials. We can again incorporate these tasks within the agreed care plan.

Testimonials from our Branch Network

Read what our care recipients and their families have to say about their experience with React Homecare.

Anna

Care Recipient's Daughter

The Carers at React Homecare are very caring and nothing is too much trouble. The team always takes the time to listen. Paulina – thank you for going the extra mile with my Dad yesterday, you were brilliant. Even the ambulance crew commented on how good you were, so a big ‘Thank you’!

Michael C.

Care Recipient's Husband

Our relationship with the Carer who comes on time every morning to bathe and dress my wife is very good. Her manager and herself are always very helpful and can’t do enough for us. They are wonderful people and a credit to React Homecare.

John D.

Care Recipient's Wife

Our family are so grateful for the considerate and patient care that our Mother receives from React Homecare. Everyone that we have dealt with has been so efficient, any time we have had a question or concern it has been answered promptly and to our satisfactio

Jennifer R.

Caregiving Daughter

I was very apprehensive about having Carers for the first time. It was a delight to welcome them into my home. Their attitude and friendliness put me at ease. The care they gave me was very professional and I was treated with dignity. Nothing was too much trouble. I would highly recommend them!

Frequently Asked Questions

Often decisions about our loved-one’s care are made in haste as a result of having to react to circumstances the family are suddenly faced with. As we know almost 3 in 4 people would rather spend their time in their own home when growing old, we believe it’s important to initiate a conversation sooner rather than later to help a more seamless introduction of care in the recipient’s life. Being prepared means having a choice and planning ahead. Identifying and addressing the care needs, providing a supportive solution before it’s needed is the best way to avoid this. We’re here to help you do that.

Primarily, you want to maintain the strength of a relationship that’s always been enjoyed. Time spent with your loved ones in their old age should be memorable and enjoyable, not resentful. Choosing a high quality, trusted home care provider removes a great deal of the stress surrounding long term decision-making for your loved ones and home care is the least expensive arrangement compared to care delivered in a residential setting.

There are a number of consideration about care for your family member that have perhaps led you to research it further, you may be: struggling to provide support yourself due to time, work, a lack of proximity to your loved one, or other pressures, you may prefer their time spent with you to be sociable, needing a break from the time you spend looking after their needs, concerned about the long term costs associated with residential care? If one or a number of these strike a chord, then home care may well be the right option for your family.

We offer a wide range of care services that will be of valuable help to you and your wider family in looking after your loved-one. A full listing of how we can help can be found by visiting our ‘Services’.

The benefit you have in maintaining control on the costs for home care is to ensure the care plan is covering the bespoke requirements you have for your loved-one’s care. You can therefore decide the level of care and support you need rather than paying a care home provider to fund care which is shared across many individuals. When considering it in those terms, home care makes for a preferential investment than residential care

Contact the friendly and helpful teams at one of our React Homecare offices [use hyperlink to locations page] and we can arrange a complimentary consultation and review to visit you and discuss how React Homecare can work for you. We are happy to visit you at the care recipient’s home and once we have decided on the best course of action and you’ve reviewed the care plan, we can take everything on from there.

Having done this for over 26 years, we’re aware that people’s care needs very often change. We therefore understand that the care requirements may need reviewing from time to time. To support this, we carry out reviews on a regular basis and why we are pleased to hear from members of the immediate family about effective methods for delivering the care service for their relative.

Due to their medical nature, our Carers are not able to give injections or change sterile dressings. Please also bear in mind that we cannot carry out tasks which are likely to cause risk to either the care recipient or to our Carer. Tasks will be agreed with you in advance as part of the care plan. Any changes to the plan can be discussed with your local team

This will largely be determined by the dependency the care recipient has and on how many care visits are planned each week to provide this support. Please be aware that we very rarely have just one care assistant assigned to a particular customer however we will aim to have well-matched Carers allocated to your loved-one. As you can appreciate, we must manage the time where the Carer may be away on holiday or unwell, however we do try to keep the number of your care assistants to an absolute minimum.

Every member of our care teams has been through a rigorous vetting procedure before they start working with us including a DBS check. In addition, all staff will always be in uniform and carry a personalised identification card which shows their name, photograph and signature.

This can vary depending on how where the source of the enquiry was received. Using the example of it being directly with yourself, then we will send you an invoice once a fortnight/month. If you wish to pay by standing order just let us know.
Please get in touch with your local office as the payment methods may vary.

We will put together a detailed care plan for each customer which, as well as setting out the care to be delivered, also shows the weekly costs. Some people will be entitled to assistance with the cost of their care either from their local Social Services office or via other Government grants.

React Homecare is registered with the local registration body in each country in which we operate. These bodies set the minimum standards by which we operate, however in every case we seek to exceed these minimum standards by a significant margin. These bodies have standards which set out how we should operate. We also carry Public Liability insurance (£10million).