Overnight Care

What does Overnight Care mean?

Overnight care is a specialised form of home care designed to support and assist individuals who require monitoring, attention, and care during the night. Overnight care is not restricted to any individual. It could be for the elderly, people with one or two disabilities, people just recovering from surgery, or someone undergoing rehabilitation.

Overnight care ensures that there is someone or carer always available to attend to any needs that may arise whilst ensuring comfort or safety any time during the night. This service offers peace of mind and an assurance of security to families who would rather have their loved ones enjoy overnight home care, in a familiar setting, than register them in a residential facility.

At its core, overnight care focuses majorly on maintaining the dignity, independence, and quality of life for people who need additional support during the night.

Our overnight care services are available throughout Australia. We offer quality health services to boost the confidence of individuals who become less active as night falls. Regardless of the health need, severity of the ailment, or urgency of attention, you are sure to enjoy the best overnight home care with Support Network.

Book a free consultation today and ensure your loved one receives expert overnight care!

Understanding Overnight Home Care

What Is Overnight Home Care?

Overnight home care is offering caregiving services during the evening and night, when most people are asleep, to individuals who need it. This involves engaging the service of a trained and skilled caregiver to stay with a person over the night with the mandate to ensure their safety, comfort, and well-being.

Our overnight home carers specifically help each of our clients with personal home tasks like toileting, mobility assistance, medication tracking and management, and most importantly, emergency response. You don’t want to receive news that your old man had a fall in the middle of the night while attempting to address an urgent need. Right? That is why you should make provisions for an overnight caregiver.

However, our goal is not just to meet physical needs alone but to also provide companionship. To reduce the feelings of loneliness and avoid isolation. To assure the elderly individual or disabled person that beyond their current situation, life is still full of amazing things for them.

In reality, our overnight home care is more about companionship than household help and assistance.

For instance, the idea of leaving someone vulnerable – especially a family member alone at night can be daunting. Hence, the best safety measure to take is to hire an overnight caregiver. Overnight caregiving bridges this gap by offering support without compromising the comfort of being in a familiar environment.

Whether you are looking for overnight support for the elderly, individuals with disabilities or anyone who needs 24/7 healthcare assistance or monitoring, our dedicated team is trained to deliver reliable care with empathy.

Why Choose Overnight Care?

Whether or not to choose overnight care is not often necessarily about the patient needing the care but being in the right state of mind not to attempt self-inflicted harm. Hence, the decision is birthed by recognizing the challenges faced by your loved ones when they are alone – especially at night.

Here are some major reasons families opt for overnight care services for their loved ones.

Safety

Having a caregiver around guarantees minimum risks associated with falls and slips, wandering off, and no one to call during an emergency. Support Network’s overnight care services let you feel relaxed wherever you are, knowing your loved one is in safe hands.

Choosing our overnight care is not only about convenience but also prioritizing the safety of your loved ones and your peace of mind.

Personalized Attention

Besides safety, personalized attention is also a priority. That is why when it comes to the well-being of your loved ones, you don’t want them waiting in line before they are cared for. You want them taken care of before they request it.

Our overnight care provides each client with one-on-one support. Premium care that is tailored towards their specific needs.

Unlike the conventional general care models, our overnight caregivers work based on your loved one's medical needs, routines, personal references, and so on. This high level of attention guarantees dedicated care and immediate assistance.

Cost-effectiveness

Hiring a full-time caregiver for the aged or disabled can be expensive. Likewise, placing them in a facility. However, our overnight care packages are budget-friendly and super affordable. Our overnight caregiving offers you a customizable care plan, which means families can choose a night care plan only, reducing the charges at the end of the day.

In addition, since hiring an overnight caregiver eliminates the risk of accidents and falls, invariably, the cost of such unplanned medical costs is eliminated. That way, you also get to pay for the services the caregivers render and not an open payment service.

You don’t want the care service of your loved ones to end abruptly due to lack of payment. You wouldn’t like to run bankrupt because you are sponsoring a family’s care plan. That is why you should work with us as your overnight caregiver.

Promotes Independence

As people age or face serious health challenges, they lose their self-esteem and recoil into an old shelf. They lose their selves and in some cases commit suicide. Maintaining independence is vital for this set of people. More important is for people who just went through surgery, are undergoing rehab, and so on.

Our overnight home care services play a crucial role in helping these individuals maintain independence. Independence from their dependence on substances led them to a bad state of health and independence against any form of insecurity.

Having overnight caregivers around encourages self-sufficiency. Offering assistance only when needed. Allowing individuals to perform some tasks independently while caregivers only guide them when necessary.

They act as a great support system for individuals in need and help them become better. Under the guidance of our expertly trained caregivers, individuals can maintain their normal routine and enjoy autonomy.

A win for the Family

Choosing overnight care not only benefits the patient. The confidence and relief that comes with knowing that your loved one is under the guidance of an expert caregiver cannot be overestimated.

Type of Overnight Care Services

There are different types of overnight care services depending on which you want to subscribe to.

Active Overnight Care

Active overnight care service is when caregivers engage actively with their clients all through the night. This type of service is tasking as it requires being readily available and alert. We recommend this service for individuals who need frequent assistance with mobility support, personal hygiene, toileting, medication administration, monitoring of vital signs, and responding to emergency situations.

Our professional carers remain vigilant all through the night to help out with the care of the client and do necessary jobs for them.

Sleep-in Care

This type of care is also called inactive overnight care. We often recommend this care for clients whose health conditions require less supervision.

Our sleep-in caregiver comes in handy in case there is an emergency. During sleep-in, emergencies require immediate and efficient responses, which may not be available if there is no caregiver at all. 

Inactive overnight caregiving is the perfect choice for people with less intensive needs, helping their families strike a balance between affordability and security.

Benefits of Overnight Care

The benefit of overnight care is an all-rounder. Everyone right from the elderly to the disabled, including their family benefits from it.

For Elderly Individual

Growing older comes with some inconveniences and part of it is finding it hard to do the tasks you used to do for yourself before. The bones are now weak, the muscles are retracted and the once strong fellow now needs help moving around. 

Their ability to manage their night and bedtime tasks independently has now become a wish. However, our overnight care addresses all these issues and many more that may arise. Here is a list of elderly concerns that our overnight care covers;

1. Frequent bathroom visits at night

Our caregiver can assist an aged person by providing mobility support when going to the restroom or toilet. The caregiver ensures the safety of the elderly. In rare cases of very old people, our caregiver assists with changing their body coverings and bed sheets.

2. Medication Management

Our care workers help here by ensuring the prescribed medications are taken regularly and when due. They do this by providing timely reminders. They also see to it that no medication is missed.

3. Fall prevention

Proper and effective supervision reduces the risk of falls, especially when everywhere is dark. There will be a caregiver available to guide the elderly out of bed, guide them to the bathroom, and help them get around the house easily.

4. Companionship

When there is someone around, the feeling of loneliness will be reduced, leading to improved well-being.

5. Meal Preparation

A healthy diet plays a significant role in people’s lives. It doesn’t exclude elderly persons, disabled individuals, and other people who are subscribed to our overnight care service.

Our caregivers also assist old Aussies with their meals, especially the evening meal. A home-cooked meal is what the elderly need. As the spices and other ingredients are not added in excess.

In some cases, clients may be restricted from certain meals. Or be mandated to have certain dishes at certain times. The assigned caregiver is responsible for ensuring these goals are met. It ensures that the client is getting a nutritious meal at least once a day. 

6. Providing Reassurance

Patients suffering from illnesses like dementia and Alzheimer’s may tend to stay awake, and confused, throughout the night. Our personal care assistant offers them comfort and puts them back to sleep. They need to ensure these clients don’t suffer too much anxiety overnight, which could further deteriorate their condition.

Sometimes, calming meditation CDs work wonders and often, it could be just offering them a glass of warm milk and assuring them that going back to bed will make them feel refreshed.

For individuals with a disability

People with one or two disabilities sometimes require specialized assistance at night. Our active overnight caregiver helps them manage complex health conditions effectively without making them feel awkward. 

For Families

As a family, you will also benefit from the assistance provided by a caregiver because it gives you peace of mind. There will be no cause for anxiety and that also means more restful nights for the family members.

Cost Considerations for Overnight Care

Before deciding to subscribe to either active or inactive overnight care, you need to understand the cost considerations. Understanding this aspect will give you insights into what to budget for overnight care.

However, generally, it is important to know that some factors influence the cost of charging for overnight care.

For instance, location. Our overnight care services rendered in the urban areas of Australia may not be the same as those in rural areas. Likewise, the type and level of care administered will also differ. Below is a general overview:

1. Duration: Of course, longer work hours attract higher pay. Also, full-night care costs way more than partial overnight home care services.
2. Specialized needs: Clients with specialized needs or patients with complex medical conditions will incur higher fees when costs of training and equipment are considered.
3. Type of care: Due to the difference in the level of engagement and availability, active overnight care service is more expensive than sleep-in overnight care service.

Generally, in Australia, the average cost of active overnight care is $40-$60 per hour and $80-$150 per night for inactive overnight care. However, this price does not apply to clients with NDIS funding.

Individuals with NDIS funding or other forms of government-approved health initiatives like Medicare, benefit from a significant cut in cost.