A guide for families in Crosby, Waterloo and Blundellsands who have started to wonder whether someone they love could benefit from a little extra help at home. Written honestly, without pressure, from experience.
On Crosby Beach, one hundred cast-iron figures stand facing the sea. They have been there since 2005, and they have become as much a part of this community as the streets behind them. Locals call them the Iron Men. Residents walk past them in the morning, stop to look when the tide is changing, photograph them with grandchildren. They are Crosby’s thing, and Crosby is quietly proud of them.
Select Home Care Services provides home help and companionship in Crosby — meals, shopping, housekeeping, appointments and company — at a standard rate of £33 per hour.
That sense of local pride — the awareness of living somewhere with its own distinct identity, separate from Liverpool to the south and different from the quieter coastal villages to the north — runs through the whole of Crosby and its neighbourhoods. Waterloo’s high street. Blundellsands’ residential calm. The community that has formed around all of it over generations.
Our free guides answer the questions most families ask first.
Crosby is bigger than it feels. Its three main neighbourhoods — Crosby village, Waterloo and Blundellsands — each have their own character, but they share the same orientation: towards the sea, towards the beach, towards the particular quality of life that comes from living on this stretch of the Merseyside coast.
The Iron Men on the beach have become a landmark for the whole area, but long-term residents have their own relationship with this place that goes deeper than any single landmark. The routes that their feet know without thinking. The neighbours who have been part of the same street for decades. The morning walk that has been the same morning walk for years. These are the things that make Crosby feel like home in a specific, irreplaceable way.
Practical help in Crosby often means getting to appointments at the GP or Aintree University Hospital, help with shopping in Crosby village or Waterloo, meals prepared at home, and regular company — a walk along the coast included, if that is what someone enjoys. If your helper drives you, mileage is charged as shown on our Pricing page.
For older adults in Crosby, the desire to remain here — in the home they know, near the beach, within the neighbourhood 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 all of Crosby including Waterloo and Blundellsands within L23. 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.