Home care in Southwark.

Care that knows the borough.

Southwark is home to around 307,600 people across 23 wards, from the river at Borough and Bankside, through Bermondsey and Rotherhithe in the north, down to Walworth, Camberwell, Peckham, Nunhead and Dulwich in the south. The 65-and-over population is around 25,800, growing by more than 15 percent over the last decade. The largest concentrations of older residents are in Livesey, The Lane and Camberwell Green.

Southwark is a borough of many cultures, many languages and many ways of calling somewhere home. Across Bermondsey, Rotherhithe, Walworth, Camberwell, Peckham, East Dulwich and Dulwich Village, families from every background live alongside each other and shape the everyday rhythm of the borough together.

Peckham is affectionately called "Little Lagos" for the size of its Nigerian community, and the Camberwell and Peckham constituency has the highest proportion of African and Caribbean residents of any constituency in England and Wales. The Latin American community around Elephant and Castle and Walworth Road brings Ecuadorian, Brazilian, Colombian and Peruvian families to the borough, and Spanish is the second-most-spoken main language in Southwark, with around 13,000 residents speaking it at home. The Irish community in Bermondsey runs its own pensioners' project. British, Caribbean, South Asian, East Asian, European, Middle Eastern and many other communities make Southwark home. Everyone here belongs.

For families looking for home care, that shapes everything. The right carer is the one who feels right to the person being supported, whatever their background. That might mean someone who shares the accent and the rhythms of a neighbourhood you have always known. It might mean someone who speaks Yoruba or Spanish or Cantonese at home. It might mean someone who understands a particular faith, a particular food, or simply a particular way of being. Southwark joined the WHO Global Network for Age-Friendly Cities in 2015, one of the earliest London members, and Hibant is built around the same idea: care that fits the person, not the other way round.

Hibant arranges visiting care, personal care, dementia support, live-in care, overnight care, respite, post-hospital and end-of-life companionship across the borough. Carers are self-employed, personally vetted, and paid fairly so they stay.

Carers matched for who you are.

In a borough as layered as Southwark, language and culture are not extras. They are how trust starts. A grandfather who wants a carer who shares his accent and the rhythms of the streets he has always walked deserves one. A grandmother who slips back into Yoruba, Spanish or Patois as dementia advances deserves to be reached in her own language. A widower who hasn't spoken Cantonese since his wife died deserves to be heard when he tries. The match should always be honest, never assumed.

Hibant carers come from many of the same communities that make up Southwark. We match across British, Caribbean, African, Latin American, European, South Asian, East Asian, Irish and Middle Eastern backgrounds among others. Tell us the kind of carer you are looking for at enquiry, in whatever words feel right, and we will find someone who fits. If we do not yet have a strong match for what you have asked for, we will say so honestly rather than send the wrong person.

Cultural match goes beyond language: food preferences, religious practice, comfort with personal care from a man or a woman, willingness to attend church, mosque, temple, the local pub for a chat, or stay in alongside the person. We ask, you tell, we match.

After King's, Guy's or St Thomas'.

Southwark's main acute hospitals are King's College Hospital at Denmark Hill, Guy's Hospital at London Bridge, and St Thomas' across the river at Westminster Bridge. South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust (the Maudsley sits next to King's) covers mental health for Southwark, Lambeth, Lewisham and Croydon.

The 48 hours after discharge are when most readmissions happen. Hibant arranges short-notice carers for that window: someone to be at the door when the ambulance arrives, to organise medication, to make a proper meal, and to spot the small things that could send your loved one back to A&E.

If a Section 5 discharge or Section 117 aftercare is in the conversation, we can also handle that. Tell us at enquiry and we will pair you with carers familiar with the relevant care plans.

Frequently asked.