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Smarter spending for better care: ten ideas to make better use of social care funding for older people and carers
- Author:
- COUNSEL AND CARE
- Publisher:
- Counsel and Care
- Publication year:
- 2010
- Pagination:
- 11p.
- Place of publication:
- London
With the budgetary pressures facing local authorities in England, it is important to identify how better value for money could be achieved from current spending on social care. The drive for efficiencies should not be at the detriment of older people with care and support needs and their families and carers. This document provides 10 ideas to make better use of current social care funding while improving quality of care and experiences for older people and their carers. It argues that better value for money could be achieved by re-focusing resources on: providing easily accessible advice, information and advocacy; recognising the key role that families and carers play; specialist independent financial advice; supporting people to stay or move where they want to be in later life; integration of housing, health and care; new technology (telecare and telehealth); personalisation (making sure care is focused on the person); prevention, early intervention and homechecks; volunteering and intergenerational work; and dementia drugs and treatments. These ideas could result in the delivery of better care at the same time as saving up to £3 billion.
Care home handbook
- Author:
- COUNSEL AND CARE
- Publisher:
- Counsel and Care
- Publication year:
- 2010
- Pagination:
- 56p.
- Place of publication:
- London
- Edition:
- 4th ed.
Handbook providing information to service users and their carers about the issues around deciding on a care home, finding and paying for one, and living in a care home. Sections cover: Making a decision about care; Choosing a care home; Paying for a care home; Living in a care home, and Making a complaint. The final section provides a list of organisations that can provide further information and advice. Content is relevant for people in England and Wales.
Home care: using direct payments or a personal budget
- Author:
- COUNSEL AND CARE
- Publisher:
- Counsel and Care
- Publication year:
- 2010
- Pagination:
- 57p.
- Place of publication:
- London
For those that are eligible for receive care, local councils can grant personal budgets from April 2011 onwards. This is a virtual pot of money which can be taken as a direct cash payment, or as services or as a mixture of cash and services. This guide provides information on direct payments and personal budgets, and has the following sections: personalisation; personal budgets; direct payments; self-directed support in Scotland; support to help you with direct payments; the local council’s duty to provide direct payments; eligibility to receive direct payments; consenting to direct payments; managing direct payments; the council’s responsibilities; before direct payments start; direct payments and personal budgets for a carer; what you may not use direct payments for; if you have short-term needs; your responsibilities; employing someone yourself; alternative arrangements; calculating the amount you will receive as a direct payment; calculating the amount of your personal budget; financial contributions; making payments; and your right to complain.
Care home handbook
- Author:
- COUNSEL AND CARE
- Publisher:
- Counsel and Care
- Publication year:
- 2009
- Pagination:
- 56p.
- Place of publication:
- London
- Edition:
- 3rd ed.
Provides information to service users and their carers about the issues around deciding on a care home, finding and paying for one, and living in a care home.
If you can't see and/or hear well: what help and support is available?
- Author:
- COUNSEL AND CARE
- Publisher:
- Counsel and Care
- Publication year:
- 2009
- Pagination:
- 63p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This guide shows that, whatever your age, if you are finding it harder to see or hear, there is help available and things you can do to make the most of your hearing and sight and enjoy life. This guide provides information, tips and signposts to organisations and professionals that can help you find support. Each person’s situation is different. Finding out about your needs and what support is available is the first step to getting resources that can improve your quality of life and keep you independent.
Keeping control: complete direct payments guide for people over 65
- Author:
- COUNSEL AND CARE
- Publisher:
- Counsel and Care
- Publication year:
- 2007
- Pagination:
- 61p.
- Place of publication:
- London
A step-by-step guide to using direct payments for people over 65. Together with its shorter companion, the brief direct payments guide, it aims to support and encourage people to take up the scheme.
Caring for loved ones in old age
- Author:
- COUNSEL AND CARE
- Publisher:
- Lawpack
- Publication year:
- 2007
- Pagination:
- 209p.
- Place of publication:
- London
One of the biggest challenges facing society is how we look after the growing number of older people. Medical advances have given us longer, healthier lives, but the cost is the demands placed on us as individuals, families and communities try to care for parents, relatives and friends in later life. This book provides guidance on a subject that most of us will have to face, but which few of us know very much about. It explains what help carers, and those they look after, can expect from the state, and the other self-funded options available.
A charter for change: reforming care and support for older people, their families and carers
- Author:
- COUNSEL AND CARE
- Publisher:
- Counsel and Care
- Publication year:
- 2008
- Pagination:
- 35p.
- Place of publication:
- London
A Charter for Change' report provides a radical new framework for social care which government must adopt to meet 'care funding gap'. Informal and private care is plugging a funding gap of £25k for every disabled person over the age of 65 in Britain today. Counsel and Care is calling for 2008 to be the year of the care debate and urges Government to adopt its radical new framework.
Grants from charities for people on a low income
- Author:
- COUNSEL AND CARE
- Publisher:
- Counsel and Care
- Publication year:
- 2009
- Pagination:
- 15p.
- Place of publication:
- London
User-friendly factsheet intended for enquirers, and directly relevant to older people, their families and carers. This item deals with grants from charities for people on a low income.
Care homes: what to look for
- Author:
- COUNSEL AND CARE
- Publisher:
- Counsel and Care
- Publication year:
- 2009
- Pagination:
- 21p.
- Place of publication:
- London
User-friendly factsheet intended for enquirers, and directly relevant to older people, their families and carers. This item deals with what to look for in choosing a care home.