domiciliary

Domiciliary services These are provided under three major pieces of legislation.

There is a big government push to get people looked after in their own homes, with a range of available domiciliary help on offer.

A domiciliary nursing service was set up at the same time to care for cancer patients in their own homes.

"I could not take the responsibility of making a domiciliary search all through the house.

Despite the general practitioner and domiciliary medical services many old people have to enter hospital for treatment or care.

And there are now many independent organisations providing domiciliary care services.

Traditionally the burden of long-term domiciliary care has fallen on women.

All hand written domiciliary prescriptions were transferred to the computer and recorded in the study.

One of the principal domiciliary services is that of home helps.

Hence domiciliary visits by medical staff are an integral part of any specialist service.

Different agencies offer domiciliary care in the community.

For the elderly patients, however, psychiatrists were much more likely to make domiciliary visits, and to take a lead in service planning.

Brown is determined to use the Queen's speech to show his commitment to free domiciliary care for the most needy.

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Last year only voluntary Welfare Officer alone, made over 102 domiciliary visits.

Apart from these comments there is a general assumption that domiciliary services should be non-specialised.

It is important to set the record straight and reassure the public that domiciliary care is in safe hands.

Developments in day care, the home help service and other domiciliary services were the currency of growth in these departments.

Equally troublesome, if not more so, is the domiciliary assessment which turns out to express total income from all sources.

It supplements care by kin, but families continue to provide the bulk of domiciliary care.

Domiciliary services can help the handicapped and their families, especially when the mental disability is accompanied by physical handicap.

Companies can hold domiciliary accounts in private banks, and account holders have unfettered use of the funds.

Volunteers provide local services including transport and escort, medical loan and domiciliary care.

But if it follows the government's call to expand into domiciliary care it will not have to register this as part of its service.

It should be the collective role of the local authority social services departments to have oversight of all who need domiciliary care.