Live-in caregivers enhance your lifestyle while maintaining your independence. They will provide you with personalised and dedicated 1:1 care, and ensure that your care needs are met each day.

Royal Homecare’s live-in caregivers can assist you with the following:

Preparing / Cooking Meals

Feeding / Eating

Bathing / Showering

Continence Care / Toileting

Dressing / Grooming

Running Errands (picking up prescriptions, post office collection and deliveries, returning books to the library, shopping for clothing etc.)

Grocery Shopping

Light Housework (cleaning common areas, changing bedsheets, laundry, dusting and vacuuming)

Mobility Exercises

Medication Prompting / Monitoring

Transportation (medical appointments, social events etc)

Companionship

There are many benefits of live-in care including:

Remaining in the comfort of your own home

Maintaining independence and retaining lifestyle

Receiving dedicated, personalised and consistent 1:1 care

Maintaining hobbies and interests

Keeping beloved pets

Staying close to family and friends

You should provide a welcoming, comfortable, safe and private bedroom for the carer. The bedroom should have a comfortable bed, storage space for their clothing / personal items and access to WiFi. Some families even provide a TV for the caregiver however, this is not mandatory. Preferably, their room should be lockable for safely leaving their personal belongings.

The carer will be staying in the home rent-free, bill-free and given a food allowance (usually, this is between €40-€60 per week).

For a Royal Homecare live-in caregiver, the cost starts at €588 for 5 days per week.

For a personalised, no-obligation free quote, please click here.

You can claim up to 40% tax relief on the costs of hiring a live in caregiver. Click here to find out more

1) Fill in our Application Form

If you are ready to submit an application for you / your loved one, please ensure that you provide as much information as possible. If you need any assistance with filling it out, please contact info@royalhomecare.ie and a member of our team will be more than happy to complete it with you over the phone.

2) Introduction Call

Once we receive your application, we will schedule a call with you to introduce ourselves and go through the application with you to answer any questions that you might have and ensure that we know your expectations.

3) Carer Search & Selection

We will send our carers the relevant information on the position. Once we receive interest from our carers, we will begin shortlisting the most suitable candidates. You will be sent their CV's to review within 3- 5 working days. You can then decide if you would like to interview them within 48 hours (either online or in-person). If you would like assistance with the interview, we can assist.

4) Hiring

Once you have had the interview with the carer(s), you can let us know whether you would like to hire them. We will then prepare and send all relevant parties the contract, which can be signed digitally or by hand. Your carer will then start with you/your relative on that agreed date.

Once you have hired the carer(s), the support does not stop there. Our team will keep in regular contact with you and the carer(s) to find out how everything is going. You can call us anytime and we will strive to resolve any issues that you may have.