Homecare in Tooting Bec and Furzedown

Homecare in Tooting Bec and Furzedown

Families just like yours, trust and rely on Right at Home Mitcham Streatham & Dulwich to provide companionship and personal care to their loved ones. Whether it’s accompaniment to the local shops or to meet a friend for lunch, we provide bespoke personal care and support for every Client.

Our Tooting Bec and Furzedown based team of CareGivers provide elderly and young people with much needed friendship and rapport. We can also help with routine household tasks that may have become difficult. Or we can simply be there as a friend to enjoy hobbies and share interests with.  We also provide specialist care such as dementia care, live-in care and respite care. 

Our companionship and personal care services are available across Tooting Bec and Furzedown and they include:

• Personal care
• Company whilst doing hobbies
• Social interaction in the community
• Respite for family CareGivers
• Food preparation
• Light housekeeping
• Emotional support
• Being there as a friend to listen and talk to
• Support on a day trip or even further afield
• Help with everyday tasks, like shopping for food or clothes
• Support with using public transport and escorting on journey

Ease the feeling of loneliness and share your time with a trusted, familiar and friendly face. At Right at Home Mitcham, Streatham & Dulwich, we offer person-centred and engaging companionship and support.

Live-In Care in Tooting Bec and Furzedown

You or your loved one may not necessarily need a lot of help. But we’re here to support you with daily activities to enable independence, well-being and preventing isolation and loneliness. Many of our Clients say their CareGivers are good friends and their relationships enrich and improve their day to day lives, which we are immensely happy to hear.

Live-in care involves having a trusted and reliable Carer live with you in your own home. Our private live-in Carers are available across Tooting Bec and Furzedown to offer support with day-to-day activities, personal hygiene, companionship, and even specialist medical care.
Our live-in care services in Tooting Bec and Furzedown are a viable alternative to a care home, offering one-to-one highly personalised, flexible care and support in the comfortable and familiar surroundings of your own home.

Tooting Bec and Furzedown Local History and Places to Visit

Underneath the pounding traffic on the A24 Upper Tooting Roads, lies the ancient remains of a Roman road (later named Stane Street) that ran from London to Chichester.   Tooting appears in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Totinges.  As with many of South London's suburbs, Tooting developed during the late Victorian period. 

Local landmarks include the large Tooting Bec Lido for (outdoor unheated) swimming on Tooting Common, one of London’s vital green lungs.   The co-owners of Right at Home Mitcham Streatham and Dulwich (who used to live on Rectory Lane) have a fond memories of walking on the common with their young children and watching them play on the swings. 

Also nearby is the famous site of Wimbledon Stadium and Plough Lane football ground.  Since the 1920s Wimbledon Stadium was used for dog racing, speedway and stock car racing.  In the 1940s Ballynennan Moon became a household name.  This Wimbledon greyhound won the Walthamstow Stakes and Wimbledon Spring Cup, followed by forty wins and seven second places from 48 starts.  Despite local campaigns to save the stadium, it was demolished in 2018 to be replaced by a Galliard development of 600 new homes.

A happier ending came with Plough Lane football ground.  It was here that, for 80 years, Wimbledon FC played football until the team was controversially up-rooted and moved to Milton Keynes.  Thanks to the unending efforts of local supporters, the team rose from the ashes in the form of AFC  Wimbledon.   Since its inception, AFC Wimbledon stated that one of its primary aims was to return to a new stadium close to its "spiritual home" at Plough Lane.  They achieved their dream in 2020 when, as part of the Galliard development, a new purpose-built stadium was opened on the site of the old Wimbledon Stadium, just 200 yards away from the original football stadium.

One other major facility in Tooting Bec is the world famous St George’s Hospital.  Tracey Scott co-owner of Right at Home Mitcham Streatham & Dulwich, gave birth to two of her children here.    

The original St George’s Hospital (located on Hyde Park Corner) was established in 1733.  It is now one of the country’s principal teaching hospitals with more than 9,000 staff.  St George’s is one of the four major trauma centres for London, and home to hyper acute stroke and heart attack centres. They operate one of London’s four helipads, treating some of the most unwell and severely injured patients from across the south of England.

St George’s is also one of London’s largest children’s hospitals, with one of only four paediatric trauma units in London.  They host the only paediatric intensive care unit in south west London and are one of the top three centres for specialist paediatric surgery in London, and a centre of excellence in foetal medicine.

Like other areas of London, Tooting Bec has a diverse multi-cultural population which is vividly seen in the wide range of local shops and restaurants in the area.  This includes two indoor markets on Tooting High Street, namely Tooting Market and larger The Broadway Market which is one of the largest of London's indoor markets, having more than ninety stalls.  Residents also enjoy an amazing choice of local Indian restaurants which stretch from one end of the long High Street to the other.