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Leaflets and brochures to download
Every page on our website can be downloaded as a PDF leaflet to print, keep or share with your family. Our brochures bring related pages together.
Our brochures
Our own pages about our care, and about working with us, joined into one PDF to read, print or share.
Live-in care: a guide for families
What live-in care is, how it works day to day, what it costs and how it can help with dementia, after a hospital stay, at the end of life and for couples.
Brochure: these pages of our website together in one PDF (40 pages).
Download the brochure: Live-in care: a guide for familiesCare at home in Oxfordshire
Home care visits, night care and 24-hour care across Oxfordshire, and who we are.
Brochure: these pages of our website together in one PDF (14 pages).
Download the brochure: Care at home in OxfordshireWorking with Day and Nightcare
Our induction, training, support and live care monitoring, and how to apply.
Brochure: these pages of our website together in one PDF (12 pages).
Download the brochure: Working with Day and NightcareGuides by topic
Each topic comes two ways: a short guide with the key points, and a reference handbook with every guide on the topic in full, to keep and look things up in.
Paying for care
Council funding, NHS Continuing Healthcare, benefits, council tax discounts and every legitimate way to reduce the cost of care.
Short guide: the key points, with the short answer from each guide and the address of the full guide (4 pages).
Download the short guide: Paying for careFull reference handbook: every guide on this topic in full (214 pages).
Download the handbook: Paying for careChoosing care at home
The types of care at home, choosing a provider, assessments, care plans, contracts and getting your home ready.
Short guide: the key points, with the short answer from each guide and the address of the full guide (3 pages).
Download the short guide: Choosing care at homeFull reference handbook: every guide on this topic in full (166 pages).
Download the handbook: Choosing care at homeHealth conditions and care at home
Dementia, Parkinson’s, stroke, falls, frailty, heart and lung conditions, continence, nutrition, wellbeing, sight and hearing.
Short guide: the key points, with the short answer from each guide and the address of the full guide (3 pages).
Download the short guide: Health conditions and care at homeFull reference handbook: every guide on this topic in full (154 pages).
Download the handbook: Health conditions and care at homeLeaving hospital
What to expect, Discharge to Assess, reablement and the questions to ask before someone comes home.
Short guide: the key points, with the short answer from each guide and the address of the full guide (2 pages).
Download the short guide: Leaving hospitalFull reference handbook: every guide on this topic in full (69 pages).
Download the handbook: Leaving hospitalPlanning ahead
Lasting Power of Attorney, advance care planning, mental capacity, end-of-life planning and staying safe from scams.
Short guide: the key points, with the short answer from each guide and the address of the full guide (2 pages).
Download the short guide: Planning aheadFull reference handbook: every guide on this topic in full (85 pages).
Download the handbook: Planning aheadHelp for family carers
Carer’s assessments, looking after yourself, working while caring, respite and caring from a distance.
Short guide: the key points, with the short answer from each guide and the address of the full guide (2 pages).
Download the short guide: Help for family carersFull reference handbook: every guide on this topic in full (75 pages).
Download the handbook: Help for family carersLiving safely at home
Home safety, equipment and adaptations, technology and telecare, and managing medication.
Short guide: the key points, with the short answer from each guide and the address of the full guide (2 pages).
Download the short guide: Living safely at homeFull reference handbook: every guide on this topic in full (61 pages).
Download the handbook: Living safely at homePopular leaflets
A leaflet is one page of our website as a PDF, with a link back to the page.
- Live-in care (6 pages)
- How live-in care works (4 pages)
- Costs and funding (8 pages)
- Dementia care at home (3 pages)
- Care after a hospital stay (3 pages)
- End-of-life care at home (3 pages)
- Home care visits in Oxfordshire (4 pages)
- Night and 24-hour care (5 pages)
- First steps when someone needs care (10 pages)
- Working with us (7 pages)
- About us (4 pages)
Local leaflets
Each county, town and London borough page has its own leaflet, with the local council, hospitals and support services. Here are the county leaflets:
- Oxfordshire (12 pages)
- Buckinghamshire (10 pages)
- Berkshire (13 pages)
- Wiltshire and Swindon (11 pages)
- Gloucestershire (11 pages)
- Northamptonshire (10 pages)
- Warwickshire (11 pages)
- Hampshire (12 pages)
- Bristol (12 pages)
- Cornwall (11 pages)
- Devon (13 pages)
- London (19 pages)
- Somerset (13 pages)
- Surrey (11 pages)
Our interactive tools
On the funding and cost checker, the NHS Continuing Healthcare self-check and the care charge calculator, "Print your answers" prints your own answers with the result. Their PDF leaflets explain each tool and give a blank paper worksheet; they do not record anyone's answers.
Let’s talk about what you need
You don’t need to have all the answers.
Tell us what is happening at home. Our care team will listen, explain the options and help you decide on the next step.