Home care in Melksham
We provide warm, professional home care across Melksham and the surrounding villages — from a friendly daily visit to round-the-clock live-in support — so your loved ones can stay safe and comfortable in their own home.
Care from people who know Melksham
Our Care Professionals live locally and know Melksham and its villages well. That means familiar faces, quick response when it matters, and care that fits into the life and community your loved one already knows.
Your local Otter team
How we can help in Melksham
Personal Care
Washing, dressing, medication and everyday routines, always with dignity.
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Companionship
Friendly visits and good company that keep loneliness at bay.
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Dementia Care
Patient, familiar support that keeps someone safe at home — and themselves.
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Specialist Support
Stroke recovery, frailty, end-of-life and other conditions.
Learn more →Care in Melksham, at whatever level suits
Most families in Melksham start small and change as things change — you are choosing how much help you would like, not a fixed package.
We visit youFrom a friendly call-in once a day to several visits, around Melksham and villages like Broughton Gifford and Whitley.
Visiting care →
We stay the nightSomeone sleeping over who can be woken once or twice, or awake the whole night if that is what is needed.
Night care →
We live inA Care Professional living alongside them in Melksham — the alternative to a move into a care home.
Live-in care →Hi, I'm Jamie
A bit about why I started Otter Homecare — and the one-to-one care we bring to families across Wiltshire and Somerset.
Watch: Hi, I'm JamieQuestions from Melksham families
We can usually carry out the free assessment the same day you call, and have care in place within 48 hours. If it is more urgent than that, say so when you ring and we will tell you honestly what we can do.
Yes — Broughton Gifford, Whitley, Atworth, Shaw, Bowerhill, Beanacre, Seend and Seend Cleeve, and the lanes between them. There is no extra charge for any of them, and no travel or call-out fee.
Yes, and it is something we do often. Where it helps, we will come and assess on the ward so that care is arranged before discharge day rather than after it.
That is the whole reason we stay small. You will have a regular team who know the routine, rather than whoever the rota throws up — and you will meet them before they start. When one of them is on holiday or off sick, cover comes from that same small team, and we tell you who is coming.
"All home care should be as good as this, lovely carers, nothing too much trouble, they don't just do the basics, but will help out with anything…"
Let's find the right care, together
A friendly voice, not a call centre.