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• Basic hand & foot care (excluding nail cutting) Cost and Funding
• Basic skin care, where there is no inflamed or broken
skin
• Shaving as required, The options for funding your care
• Toilet needs, including the management of continence
• Prompt, assist and administer medication in How to fund long-term care is an important consideration when looking at
accordance with the Care Plan home care options. Depending on your personal circumstances, there may
• Manual handling with or without the use of a hoist be public funding or benefits available to you, or other finance options.
• Monitoring general safety and welfare of user Below are some examples of care that you may be eligible or entitled to and
• Assistance with toileting, disposal of incontinence you will need to contact your local council to enquire:
pads, emptying colostomy and catheter bags
WHAT BENEFITS ARE AVAILABLE TO YOU?

Practical and Social Support includes: OVERVIEW
• Domestic cleaning but only as part of a Care Plan
which includes personal care Paying for your care can feel daunting. We’re here to put your mind at rest.
• Monitor Personal Care, excluding general safety and Cost is a significant factor when you’re considering any form of care. So
welfare of Service User and home environment
• Preparation of light meals knowing your options – from healthcare funding to benefits entitlement –
will help you make a better decision and lift a weight from your shoulders.
• Seeking basic information and assisting with Our friendly advisors are always here to help.
form-filling
• Ensuring that the user is warm and secure WHO QUALIFIES FOR CARE FUNDING FROM THEIR LOCAL

Domestic tasks include: AUTHORITY?

• Dusting, vacuum cleaning, washing floors, washing For anyone seeking full-time live-in home care, either for themselves, their
crockery and cutlery partner or a family member, the issue of how care is funded is complex.
• Polishing large items of furniture, cleaning baths, Whilst self-funding the entire cost of live-in care seems the most obvious and
sinks, work surfaces straightforward option, for many people in later life this is simply
• Toilets and ovens, removing cobwebs from ceilings and impracticable.
walls In certain circumstances, however, you or your loved one may qualify for care
• Laundering sheets, towels, personal clothing funding from your Local Authority. There are two main categories of
• Ironing, shopping, pension and prescription collection discretionary subsidy for care costs: healthcare funding and social care
• Changing bed linen, emptying commode, pet care (not funding.
harmful ones- discretionary)
To determine whether or not you may be eligible to receive care funding
based upon your individual healthcare or social care needs it is important to
We know that asking for help can be difficult at times. understand the broad definition of each.
We’re here to talk you through your visiting care options
and the full costs. Call us today to speak to one of our
friendly customer advisors.

Borough of Lewisham Borough of Lewisham
CQC overall rating. Good. 6 May 2020 CQC overall rating. Good. 6 May 2020