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Flexible hourly home care tailored to your schedule. Our expert carers assist with daily tasks, medication, and companionship for seniors with early-stage conditions.
Overnight home care for peace of mind while your loved one sleeps. Perfect for fall prevention, personal care, and dementia-related nighttime support.
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If you need help urgently, Curam connects you with vetted, self-employed carers available at short notice. Get rapid home care, emergency respite or safe hospital discharge support when you need it most.
Emergency home care provides fast, short-notice support when someone needs help urgently and can’t wait for a planned care arrangement. It’s designed for situations like a sudden illness, a family carer becoming unavailable, an unexpected hospital discharge, or a change in someone’s mobility, memory or safety at home.
Instead of waiting days for traditional care services, emergency home care connects you with a professional carer who can step in the same day or within hours. They can help with personal care, medication prompts, meals, supervision, reassurance and wellbeing checks — whatever is needed to keep someone safe and supported at home during a crisis.
For many families, emergency home care is a lifeline. It bridges the gap until longer-term support is arranged, provides relief during unexpected situations and ensures that a loved one can remain at home with the right help at the right time.
Emergency home care is often required when something changes suddenly and there isn’t time to arrange planned support. These moments can be stressful for families, especially if you’re trying to keep a loved one safe, well and comfortable at home.Emergency care helps bridge that gap by providing fast, professional support exactly when it’s needed.
If the main caregiver is suddenly unable to provide support — due to illness, work commitments or a personal emergency — a carer can step in quickly to keep things stable at home.
A fall, infection, confusion, mobility change or worsening dementia symptoms can create an urgent need for help, supervision and wellbeing checks.
Hospitals often discharge patients with little notice. Emergency home care ensures someone is at home to help with personal care, settling in, medication reminders and early recovery.
An unexpected issue outside usual care hours — for example wandering, distress, disorientation or anxiety — may require same-day or overnight support..
Families sometimes need an immediate break to rest, attend an appointment or manage other responsibilities. Emergency respite care offers fast cover at home.
Agitation, wandering, sundowning or moments of confusion may require immediate one-to-one supervision to keep someone safe.
Curam’s rapid-response carers can be with you within hours to stabilise situations at home. From post-hospital care to sudden changes in dementia behaviours, we assemble the right mix of personal care, clinical oversight and companionship so families can breathe again.
One-to-one support is available nationwide, day or night, with vetted professionals who understand crisis planning, safeguarding and the reassurance families need.
Urgent help with washing, continence, mobility support and safe transfers after a fall or illness.
Ensuring time-critical prescriptions, antibiotics or pain relief are taken correctly and side effects are monitored.
Preparing nourishing meals, encouraging fluids and spotting early warning signs of dehydration or weakness.
Regular visits or overnight stays to watch for confusion, wandering or medical changes that need escalation.
Grounding conversations, calm reassurance and family updates during bereavement or unexpected disruption.
Specialist supervision for sundowning, heightened anxiety or distress, keeping everyone safe at home.
Emergency home care is designed for situations where support can’t wait. With Curam, many carers are available the same day, and in urgent situations, some can arrive within a few hours depending on your location and the type of help required.
Once you post your requirement or contact carers directly, you’ll immediately see who is available for today, tonight, or the next morning. You can message carers instantly, discuss what’s happened and agree duties and rates without delay. This makes it possible to arrange short-notice respite, post-hospital support, or urgent personal care much faster than traditional services.
For families dealing with a sudden change, knowing help can arrive quickly brings real peace of mind. Whether it’s a crisis at home, an unexpected discharge or a family carer falling ill, fast access to a trusted professional can make all the difference.
Emergency home care and regular visiting care both help people remain safe and supported at home, but they are designed for very different situations. Emergency care focuses on a rapid response during an unexpected change — such as a sudden illness, a family carer becoming unavailable or a same-day hospital discharge. Regular visiting care, on the other hand, is planned in advance and provides consistent, ongoing support for daily routines. Knowing the difference helps families choose the right level of help at the right time.
Urgent care rates reflect the speed and hours required. Typical short-notice prices:
£26 – £30 / hour
Rapid daytime support for personal care, medication reminders, mobility help or short-notice respite when needs change unexpectedly.
£28 – £34 / hour
Ideal for night-time safety checks, dementia reassurance, post-hospital monitoring or situations where someone should not be left alone overnight.
£26 – £32 / hour
Fast cover when a family carer is unwell, unavailable or needs urgent time away. Helps maintain safety, routine and supervision at home.
£28 – £36 / hour
Immediate support after an unplanned discharge, including settling in, medication prompts, mobility help and early recovery monitoring at home.
All pricing is agreed directly with your carer and includes Curam’s insurance, contracts and payment protection.
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Specialist carers manage agitation, wandering and sundowning with calm reassurance.
Same-day help after a fall, sudden frailty or a GP recommending supervision.
Cover for family carers who need immediate breaks due to illness or travel.
Waking-night professionals ensuring safety, toileting support and medication.
Compassionate end-of-life carers to maintain dignity at home when time matters most.
Same-day discharge support, medication management and liaison with community nurses.
Need to leave hospital today? Curam carers can meet you on the ward, organise transport, settle you home and provide round-the-clock monitoring during the first 24–72 hours. Share discharge notes inside the app so everyone stays aligned.
Thousands of carers, nationwide coverage, instant messaging and same-day responses.
Handpick carers who match your urgent needs, preferences and budget.
You choose the rate with your carer, and every visit is recorded in the app so you always know exactly what you’re paying for.
All Curam carers are DBS-checked, insured and backed by our UK safeguarding team.
Explore practical guides about visiting care, funding and preparing your home before you finalise a rota.
