reablement

The Unit provides a reablement service of short-term care.

What happens when I come on to the Reablement Scheme?

Gordon Brown has said he also wants to provide "reablement" and rehabilitation support to all over-65s in England.

Members of the council say it is achieving a "significant element" of the cuts through "reablement".

The Reablement Scheme is a short period of rehabilitation designed to restore skills, look at any health needs and increase confidence.

Rehabilitation A programme of therapy and reablement designed to restore independence and reduce disability.

Funding for "reablement" (instead of long-term care).

A skill mix of reablement therapy, nursing and social therapy and care is important in day settings.

However for people with dementia a focus on reablement and skills maintenance for as long as possible is of a different order of care.

We have maximised dignity and independence for many of our more vulnerable elderly by our life-changing reablement care scheme.

He added that the charity's figures forgot to include £150 million of NHS cash for "reablement" - supporting older people upon discharge from hospital.

How to pay Information explaining various ways to pay for Home Care Services and Reablement Charges.

Reablement A rehabilitation process that empowers the service user, enabling those who have lost skills to either regain or relearn them, or to acquire new ones.

Evaluation Report, Great Wyrley Reablement Scheme, May 2000.

"Our plans for a new national care service will include a clear commitment to roll out to every area of the country ... reablement and rehabilitation services," he said.

The organisation provides a range of in-patient and out-patient services to a population of about 600,000 people, including nursing, physiotherapy, reablement and adult social care services.

We have improved the quality of life for many through our life-changing reablement care scheme, which allows people to live independently in their own homes following hospitalisation, illness or incapacity.

In that time we shamelessly ripped off great ideas from elsewhere such as the introduction of reablement for the first time in Scotland and Local Area Coordination from Australia.

They need to look at how investing in innovative technology and ways of working, like telehealth and reablement, can give patients better results closer to home and free up more money for frontline services."

Growing numbers of councils, such as Leeds, Middlesbrough and Hampshire, are investing in "reablement" programmes of intensive help for people to live independently at home so they do not require long-term support.

During 2007 Somerset Primary Care Trust consulted local residents about proposals for the redevelopment of South Petherton Community Hospital, which provides Out Patient Assessment and Reablement services.

In a speech today to the King's Fund health thinktank in London, the prime minister said he wanted to go beyond this and provide "reablement" and rehabilitation support to all over-65s in England.

"Equally, many people across North Devon are very concerned at any loss of a facility at the Reablement Unit, which has enabled so many people to regain their quality of life after illness."

See the end of these pages for contact names and numbers. 4. Charges for Reablement You may be offered a Reablement service instead of a Home Care service.

This year we can expect to see more innovative approaches that achieve better outcomes for people - such as reablement services, integrated care, personal budgets, housing-based models of care, shared lives schemes and asset-based approaches such as local area coordination.