Home Care Based On Personal Experience

Growing up, my day to day reality revolved around my parents' poor health. Both my father and  mother were seriously ill with long-term health conditions. As such, regular hospital admissions and operations became the norm. After my father passed away from a rare kidney disease, my mother developed trigeminal neuralgia, a rare and debilitating condition characterised by sudden and often severe facial pain. The condition, comes and goes, but can last for days, weeks or months at a time. 

As an only child, I became my mother’s primary carer. However, it wasn’t long before her condition began to worsen. During particularly bad bouts of neuralgia, my mother would be unable to talk or eat and was unwilling to leave the house. I knew then that I would have to secure additional help and so I started exploring the idea of bringing someone in to assist her. As I started contacting local organisations, I was immediately struck by how difficult it was to even get hold of anyone and then to get them to understand my mother’s unique condition and bespoke care needs.

It was this experience that prompted me to set up my own organisation – one that would not only support and care for people with mainstream diseases, but also those with more unfamiliar conditions, who would require more intermittent care.

With a background in human sciences and epidemiology from Oxford University and a career in the health care industry, I felt my academic knowledge and professional experience aligned perfectly.

And so Tiggo Care was born - rooted in my own lived experience and grounded in both an understanding of the complexities of rare diseases and an awareness of the need for a more flexible and bespoke approach to care. 

We want to provide families across London and surrounding areas with a unique care option – one that puts them and their loved one at heart of the decision making process, that gives them greater personal choice and control over their care and that delivers a truly bespoke service to the highest standards.