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Providing Home care: an Alternative model
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Degree Introduction to health and social care (Block 1) Mind Map on Providing Home care: an Alternative model, created by Charlie_eeyore on 26/05/2013.
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Providing Home care: an Alternative model
Direct Payments
Benefits
More Flexibility
Familiarty
Paid for by the local authoirty
Confidence
Freedom
Continuity
Come and go more
Promotes independence and choice
Service users buy the care they need directly
Difficulties
Boubdaries
Personal Assistants
Difficulties
No progresssion
Lower pay
Unsocailable hours
Training oppourtunities
Work more than paid for
Vulnerable as dependent on relationship staying strong
Benefits
Choice over who they work for and with
Higher job stasifaction
Stronger realtionships
Critisms of home care
Not always the same carer
User not in chanrge
Does not know the client well
Higher needs meet, according to Maslow's hierachy with Direct payments
Not suitable for everyone children/mental impairments
More suited to users with long term health conditions and physical impairments
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