Independent Advocacy in Care Planning: When Might It Be Required?
A practical Care Act guide to substantial difficulty, appropriate support and the independent advocate role in assessment and care planning. …
Accessible Information in Home Care: What Families Can Ask For
A practical guide to identifying, recording, flagging, sharing, meeting and reviewing accessible communication needs in home care. …
Mental Capacity at Home: The 5 Principles and a Safe Best-Interests Process
A careful guide to the five Mental Capacity Act principles, decision-specific assessment, best interests, recording and review at home. …
Consent in Home Care: Who Can Decide and How Should Choices Be Recorded?
A practical guide to informed choice, refusal, recording consent, mental capacity and questions families can ask a home-care team. …
Mental Health and Complex Care at Home: 7 Questions for a Person-Centred Support Plan
Seven practical questions for a person-centred mental-health support plan covering choice, communication, coordination, safety and review. …
CQC Registered Complex Care Provider: 7 Smart Checks
Seven practical checks to help families verify a complex home-care provider's CQC registration, location, activities and current evidence. …
Complex Care Assessment at Home: 7 Safe Checks
A complex care assessment at home is a conversation and information-gathering process, not simply a form. It should help the person, family and relevant professionals understand current needs, what matters day to day, who is involved and what still needs assessment or a decision. The right complex care assessment at home is individual. It should not be based only on a diagnosis, a hospital summary or assumptions about what another person needed. The person’s wishes, current circumstances and the advice of relevant professionals matter. This guide offers seven safe checks to help families and referrers prepare for a complex care …
Care Home vs Live-In Complex Care: 7 Safety Checks
A care home vs live-in complex care decision is rarely as simple as choosing a building or staying at home. Families need to compare the person’s assessed needs, wishes, clinical tasks, staffing, nights, environment, social life, affordability and the evidence offered by specific providers. Neither option is automatically safer or kinder. A suitable care home may provide facilities, staff and social opportunities that fit one person. A well-designed live-in package may support another person in familiar surroundings. The responsible choice is the one that can meet current needs safely and remain sustainable. The NHS guide to care homes and other …
