Respite Care in Plainfield

Respite care is the only service we offer where the client is really the family. Somebody — usually a spouse or a daughter — has been carrying this for months or years, and they need to sleep, or see a doctor, or attend a wedding, or simply sit somewhere quiet without listening for a sound from the next room.

It can be a few hours a week, a regular afternoon, or a fortnight while you go away. What it must not be is left too late. The families who cope best are the ones who started respite while things were still manageable, rather than the ones who called when the carer's own health gave way.

Being local to Plainfield means short-notice respite is realistic here. Some of what respite covers cannot be scheduled a month ahead — an appointment that has to happen, a funeral, a day where somebody simply cannot do it again.