Zusammenfassung der Ressource
UNIT 3 : CONCEPTS
- CARE
- Assessment
- Each individual has
different needs so an
assessment ensure the
correct and most
suitable care is provided
- Carried out by
'Care
Manager'
- Care Package
- Set of services
required for the care
- Care Manager
- E.g. Social Workers / Community Nurse;
manages care package, decides budget, finds
people and organisation to provide service and
carries out regular reviews
- Care Plan
- Record of the care expected to be received - signed by care
recipient as acknowledgement that it has been agreed
- MEANS TESTING
- If someone qualifies for home social care, income is
assessed to see how much they need to pay
- INCOME AND WEALTH
- Savings above £21,000 would
result in needing to pay towards
costs of care
- POSTCODE LOTTERY
- What you pay will
depend on where you
live
- HEALTH CARE OR SOCIAL CARE?
- Health care = free
- Can get same services for nothing
- Social care = funded
- If you are identified as needing
social care then you are paying
to be bathed
- Significant consequences
of falling into one side and
not the other
- HOME CARE
- Home care workers
- Range of skills needed
- Different clients
- Skilled care using hi-tech
equipement / personal care e.g.
washing & dressing / shopping
- CARE RELATIONSHIPS
- Boundaries between work and
friendship
- Emotional =
care works
also need
support
- Clients can pass away
- PLAYERS OF HOME CARE
- Commissioners
- Agencies contract and pay for services. /
Budgets from local or national taxes /
Responsible for purchasing services and
making sure care is delivered as in contract
- E.g. Social services and PCTs
- Providers
- Contract with
commissioners
- E.g. Somebody Cares
- Recruitment,
management and
training of
well-motivated staff =
key
- Clients
- Use the services
- DIRECT PAYMENTS
- Cash payment made to client to
spend of meeting their assessed
support needs (by Local Authority)
- Independence / control / choice
- HIGHER ORDER NEEDS
- Needs from Maslow's theory; social activities /
love / friendship / self-respect / recognition /
development and growth
- PRINCIPLES OF CARE PRACTICE
- Support people in maximising potential
- Support people in having voice and
being heard
- Respect people's beliefs and practices
- Support people's rights to
appropriate services
- Respect people's privacy and confidentiality