Care at Home and Housing support services is a real option for people who need assistance with their social personal and healthcare to lead independent lives. Many people who use homecare do so as a real alternative to moving into a care home.
Starting to think about meeting your care needs can be daunting. Scottish Care aims to answer some of your questions about homecare and help you find out where you can get more information.
Increasing personalisation of services is now the direction of travel for social work services. The population and policy expect it. Personalisation puts the person at the centre as a participant in shaping the services they get, and allows them to work with professionals and their carers to manage risk and resources.
Homecare, Care at Home & Housing support are just a few of the many forms of domiciliary care provided in the home by one or more Care or Support workers and if required Nurses to assist someone with their daily life.
Enabling people who need care to remain in their home helps maintain personal independence, comfort and contact with their local community. Homecare is flexible, with just the right amount of assistance at any one time.
Currently care may be funded from four streams
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providing a non-personal Care and Support service
* Meal Preparation can be either domestic or personal dependent on level of disability. The position of the council, as supported by COSLA, is that meal preparation is only considered to be a personal task where the client requires the combination of meal preparation and assistance with feeding. Otherwise it is considered to be a domestic task.
providing a personal Care and Support service
* Meal Preparation can be either domestic or personal dependent on level of disability. The position of the council, as supported by COSLA, is that meal preparation is only considered to be a personal task where the client requires the combination of meal preparation and assistance with feeding. Otherwise it is considered to be a domestic task.
providing an Enhanced/Intensive Complex Care service