Zusammenfassung der Ressource
B1 U3 - Social Care
in the Community
- Entering the world
of Social Care
- Ann, Angus - Yetunde
- First very shaky - Angus
didn't like her, she didn't
know the routine, he
couldn't say her name.
- Yetunde - took the time
to do basic tasks.
- Got Angus to play
the grandfather
role to Zoe
- Call Yetunde "Betty"
- Her approach and attitude
made a difference, not
just the care plan
- Ann gets help
- GP puts her on antidepressants
- Attends a group - helps
with specialist services for
people with Parkinson's
- Before entering the Social Care
world users and carers have to
undergo an assessment of needs
- Aids and adaptations are often
helpful although Ann never
really comments on these
- Who decides, who pays?
- Fair Access to Care Services
- If risks to safety and independence
are 'critical' or substantial will help be
provided. Otherwise people have to
find their own sources of assistance
- It is determined by
the local council
- There is no guarantee
that people eligible one
year will be the next
- Who pays
- There is no way to assess
how much or how many
people pay for their own care
- The NHS provides
some care but not all
- For people like Angus, it costs the
government around £8 million which
comes from national and local taxation
- It varies between
countries in UK
- Postcode Lottery - unfair
depending on where you
live?
- Health Care - national taxation
(public). Social Care falls on local
authorities (government)
- Home Care: workers and users
- Somebody Cares
- Brian & June - Kevin and Elvis
- Amputee - Social Services
- No issues and appreciates
the work done for him.
- Clarice - Liz
- To stay out of care
home - pays herself
- Flexible if she needs more help
- Important to have same worker
- Aerwyn - Elvis
- Providing company - Social services
- Prefers non formal - no uniform
- Regards Elvis as a friend
- Maria - Lyn
- To live independently with
disability - SS, Independent
Living fund and own money
- Likes variety of workers provided
- All treat her with respect
- The caring business
- Commissioners - The agency which contract
and pay for services. ie. Cardiff Social Services
- Providers - private ie. Somebody
Cares or non-profit organisations
- Service users - people who
use the service ie. Elvis, Clarice
- Complexities
- Staffing - making sure everyone is
covered no matter what the weather
- Training
- Monitoring and spot checks
- Maintaining standards
- 2006 Social Care Inspection
- considerable dissatisfaction with home
care on the part of the people who use it
- Providing home care: an
alternative model
- Direct Payments - cash payments made by
the local authority to an individual with
certain needs so that they can pay for them.
- Promotes independence, control
- The term personal assistant is used because
it usually involves more personal care
- familiarity with PA, not getting a
new person every time and
explaining again and again
- Empathy and
understanding
- companionship
- Hard to keep the boundary
between friendship and work
- DP - most suitable for people with
permanent disabilities, long term issues.
Not babies, children or older frail people
- Maslow's hierarchy
- 1. Physiological
- 2. Safety
- 3. Social
- 4. Self-esteem
- 5. Self-actualisation