Your Life
Your Life is a home care agency in Potters Bar, Hertfordshire (EN6 1BZ). It holds a CQC rating of Good.
About Your Life
We provide care at home in Potters Bar and the surrounding parts of Hertfordshire. We support older adults, people living with dementia, people with physical disabilities, people living with sight or hearing loss, and younger adults who need help to manage day to day. Our aim is to make a person's own home workable rather than merely supervised. That distinction matters to us, because the quickest way to reduce what somebody can do is to do all of it for them. So we help with what has genuinely become difficult and we leave alone what the person would rather keep managing, even where that takes us longer. Continuity is what we are asked about most and what we protect hardest. A familiar carer who has read the notes and remembers last week's conversation achieves more in half an hour than a stranger does in an hour. We send the same small team to the same households wherever the rota allows, and we give notice when something has to change instead of leaving anyone watching the window. Our overall rating from the Care Quality Commission is good. We would rather treat it as a baseline than quote it as a credential. We ask the people we visit what we should do differently, and the useful answers tend to be small, specific and mildly critical.
Care provided at Your Life
- Older person care
- Dementia care
- Physical disability support
- Sensory impairment support
- Younger adults care
- Covers approximately 10 miles
- Last CQC inspection: 3 January 2020
Read the full inspection report on the CQC website.
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Common questions about Your Life
Where is Your Life located?
Your Life is a home care agency based in Potters Bar, Hertfordshire (EN6 1BZ), providing care to people in their own homes within approximately 10 miles of the area.
What type of care does Your Life provide?
Your Life is registered to provide care in people’s own homes, with support that includes Older person care, Dementia care, Physical disability support, Sensory impairment support, Younger adults care. The full list of services is shown on this page.
What is Your Life's CQC rating?
Your Life is registered with and inspected by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). Its most recent overall rating is Good following its last inspection on 3 January 2020. You can read the full CQC report from the link on this page.
Does Your Life provide dementia care?
Yes. Your Life supports people living with dementia. We recommend contacting the agency directly to discuss your individual situation.
Questions families ask about Your Life
Can they support someone living with dementia at home?
Yes. Yes. Your Life (Potters Bar) is registered for dementia care in people's own homes.
Can they help with medication and nursing tasks?
Ask the home. Most home care agencies prompt or give medication but do not provide nursing tasks. Ask what their carers are trained to do.
Do they cover our area?
Yes. Your Life (Potters Bar) covers roughly 10 miles from Potters Bar.
Will the council help pay?
Ask the home. The agency has not told us which funding it accepts. Most take both council funded and self funded clients; a direct payment from the council can be used to pay them.
Typical home care fees in the East
Your Life (Potters Bar) has not published its fees yet. These are typical hourly rates for the East, so you know roughly what to expect before you call.
- Home care (per hour): £28 to £33 per hour, typical range
Indicative figures for the East, not a quote from Your Life (Potters Bar). Actual fees depend on the room, the level of care and how it is funded.
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