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• Advocacy
• Direct Payments
• Domiciliary Care
• Eligibility Criteria
• Nursing Care
• Respite Care/Short Breaks
• Residential Care

Advocacy

Advocacy is taking action to help people to say what they want, secure their rights, represent their interests and obtain services they need.  Advocates and advocacy schemes work in partnership with the people they support and take their side.  Advocacy promotes social inclusion, equality and social justice.

Direct Payments

A Direct Payment gives you, as an individual, greater choice and control over how you choose to live your life.  It enables you to make your own decisions about how you organise your care arrangements.

Domiciliary Care

Domiciliary Care can help people with personal care and some of the practical household tasks that help them to stay at home and be as independent as possible.

There are many types of domiciliary care to support people who have different needs for ongoing help, short term help, or help from time-to-time. You may need regular care, need short-term care after being in hospital, or pehaps you have an illness or disability that means you need help occasionally.

Domiciliary care agencies provide care services to support people in their own homes, they do not give specialist nursing care.

Eligibility Criteria

Respite Care/Short Breaks

Carers sometimes need a break and this can be provided in several ways.  You may wish to go into a care home yourself for a week or two; or arrange home-based respite care where another carer moves into your ome; or family-based respite care where you move into another family's home for a period.  The best option for you will depend on your needs, the urgency of the situation and personal choice and cost.

Residential Care

Care Homes offer accommodation, food and care, and there is always someone on hand to give help 24 hours a day.  You can expect the level of personal care that a competent, caring relative might give you in your own home.  Homes can range from hotel type establishments that suit people who are fairly independent, to Homes that care for residents who are frail, confused or very disabled.

Nursing Care

Care Homes with Nursing offer nursing care for either physical and/or mental health care needs and must employ qualified nursing staff 24 hours a day.  You can expect these Homes to offer short-term convalescent and post-operative care as well as long-term nursing care.

Related Pages:

• Carers Support
• Day Services
• Memory Cafes/Singing for the Brain
• Further Information

Last updated: 16 November 2010