New Bristol Dementia Home Support Service: consultation
The City Council Health & Social Care's Continuing To Care (home care) service
will soon end and be replaced by a specialist service for people with dementia.
will soon end and be replaced by a specialist service for people with dementia.
Service features:
- offer short term intervention based on Reablement and Crisis Intervention
- have close links with secondary Mental Health services such as Community Mental
Health teams and the Memory Service - have close links with primary care (e.g. through a Dementia linkworker role which is
being developed) - provide rapid access to short term respite support away from home
- focus on those with most difficult behaviours to manage at home with the aim of
supporting users and carers longer - work alongside generic home care services to provide continuity and improve the
skills and confidence of generic providers
To find out more download the detailed service specification and outcomes
documents. The 'performance framework' will
establish the outcomes and performance indicators for the service.
Your views
Whilst this kind of service very much fits with the direction of the National Dementia
Strategy as well as our Joint Bristol Strategy, we need to gain wider views
about the practical direction that we are taking in Bristol.
Strategy as well as our Joint Bristol Strategy, we need to gain wider views
about the practical direction that we are taking in Bristol.
Comment directly to Ian Popperwell email ian.popperwell@bristol.gov.uk
or tel. 0117 903 7598.
or tel. 0117 903 7598.
Whilst the city council welcomes any comments you have on the service, the following
areas might give some helpful ideas:
areas might give some helpful ideas:
- How well you think that the service has been constructed
- Whether you think that the service will provide better support to people with dementia
and their carers
- Is the length of the support offered about right?
- Whether you think the service might better meet the cultural needs of people with
dementia from BME communities in the city
- Whether you think the service might be able to better meet the needs of all equalities
groups
- Whether you think that the service will be able to achieve its aim of working effectively
with other agencies involved with a family
- How much this service will work to enable people to stay at home and maintain
greater independence for longer
- To what extent this service might offer the kind of support to carers that they
need to continue their role
Consultation closes: 30 January 2012.