Overnight & 24-hour care

Sleeping night or waking night

These are genuinely different services and choosing wrongly wastes money or fails the person.

A sleeping night suits someone who might need help once or twice: the caregiver sleeps in the home, in a bed you provide, for up to 12 hours, and gets up when called. A waking night is for someone who needs help frequently or cannot safely be left unobserved: the caregiver is awake and present throughout.

The assessment establishes which one the situation actually calls for, and we revisit it, because needs at night change faster than needs during the day.

Round-the-clock means a rota, not a resident

Twenty-four-hour care is two 12-hour shifts: a caregiver for the day and another for the night, with a handover at each change, not one person working around the clock. Tired caregivers make mistakes.

Handovers are the whole job

The risk in overnight care is not the night. It is the seam between one caregiver and the next: what happened, what changed, what to watch for.

Each caregiver’s notes go into the care record, so the next one knows what happened, what changed and what to watch for.