A guide for families in Aughton who have started to wonder whether someone they love could benefit from a little extra help at home. Written honestly, without pressure, from experience.
Aughton has two medieval churches, which tells you most of what you need to know about how long people have been choosing to live here. Christ Church and St Michael’s have stood over these lanes for centuries, and the village that grew between them has kept its character with remarkable stubbornness — green, quiet, and set apart, even as Ormskirk grew beside it.
Select Home Care Services provides home help and companionship in Aughton — meals, shopping, housekeeping, appointments and company — at a standard rate of £33 per hour.
Today Aughton is known for its leafy roads, its gardens, and — to the surprise of visitors — some of the finest dining in the north of England on its doorstep. But for the people who have lived here for decades, its real appeal has never changed: space, calm, and a settled community where neighbours know each other by name.
Our free guides answer the questions most families ask first.
Aughton is a village of long residence. People move here for the space and the schools and the quiet, and then they stay — often for the rest of their lives. The houses along Long Lane, around Aughton Park and down towards Town Green hold families who have been part of this community for thirty, forty, fifty years.
Long-term residents have their own relationship with this place that goes deeper than its postcard qualities. The lanes their feet know without thinking. The gardens tended through decades of seasons. The walk to the station, the church, the neighbours’ houses that have been the same neighbours’ houses for a generation. These are the things that make Aughton feel like home in a specific, irreplaceable way.
Aughton sits just south of Ormskirk, so practical help here often means getting to appointments at the GP or Ormskirk District General Hospital, help with shopping in Ormskirk, meals prepared at home, and regular company. If your helper drives you, mileage is charged as shown on our Pricing page.
For older adults in Aughton, the desire to remain here — in the home they know, with the garden they have kept, within the village they have been part of for years — is almost universal. What gradually threatens that is not any single thing, but the accumulation of small practical difficulties that, left unaddressed, shift the balance.
We cover the whole of Aughton within L39, including Aughton Park and Town Green. If you are unsure whether your road falls within our area, please call us and we will confirm immediately.
Select Home Care Services was founded by senior carer Anita and registered nurses Natalie and Nicola. We provide home help and companionship. We are not CQC registered, and we do not provide personal care, nursing or medical treatment, or give medication — if that kind of help is needed, we will say so and point you to the right service.
£33 per hour. Every service. Holiday rates published.
No registration fees · Published prices · Minimum visit one hour · No long-term contract
If you have a question not answered here, please call us on 01704 333 188. We are always happy to talk without any pressure.
See All QuestionsThe first call is simply a conversation, with no commitment. We will listen carefully and give you an honest view of whether home help is what is needed. If you decide to go ahead, we arrange a visit to talk through what would help, and agree everything in a simple written agreement.
Some families call us having thought about it for a day. Others have been sitting with the question for months. Either is fine. The conversation will be the same: unhurried, honest and without any pressure.
If we are not the right fit, we will say so — and do what we can to point you in the right direction.