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. …
Support for Health Appointments at Home: 7 Smart Checks
Seven practical checks for supporting health appointments while keeping the person choices, comfort and independence at the centre. …
First Week of Live-In Care: 7 Essential Family Checks
The first week of live-in care is a settling-in period for the person receiving support, the care worker, family members and the provider. Even when assessment has been thorough, everyday details become clearer once support begins in the actual home. The aim is to establish safe routines without making the person feel that control of their home has been taken away. Live-in care does not automatically mean one worker is awake and working every hour of the day. The first week of live-in care should confirm agreed working arrangements, rest and breaks, any overnight support, backup cover and the tasks …
