Assessed needs
The needs of an individual that have been identified as a result of an assessment by a health and / or social care professionals. Also sometimes referred to as “care needs”
Assessment
The process undertaken by health and / or social care professionals of finding out about a person’s personal circumstances, home situation and medical condition in order to work out which care services they need, and may be eligible for.
Care
Domiciliary care
Social care services provided in a person’s own home. Also known as “home care”.
Personal care
Care associated with meeting the intimate needs of an individual such as personal toilet ( bathing, skin care, dressing and undressing; eating and drinking; managing urinary and bowel function; management of mobility; management of medication; behaviour management.
Social care
Services, including personal care, that support and enable people to live their daily lives provided by organisations in both the statutory and independent sectors in either an individual’s own home or a care home.
Care home
Any home registered to provide care under the Care Standards Act 2000, which came into effect in April 2002. Includes local authority, private and voluntary sector homes. Care homes can provide nursing and personal care.
CRAG
Charging for Residentail Accommodation Guide. Department of Health guidance on charging to local authorities.
CQC
The Care Quality Commission is the regulator of social care in England and registers, inspects and reports on social care services.
DWP
The Department of Work and Pensions
Eligibility criteria
Set of standards or rules governing access to each particular service.
Independent care sector
The term applied to private and voluntary sector care providers as distinct from the statutory sector ( local authorities and the NHS)
Local authority, council
Elected body responsible for providing public services such as education, housing and social services within a particular area. Most urban areas, including London, have unitary authorities – one council provides all local government services. Other areas have a two-tier system, with a county council and district councils; in these, social services are run by the county councils. Elected councillors decised the policy framework for the work of the local authority within the framework of the law.
NHS
National Health Service
Nursing home
A care home providing nursing care ( with, generally, at least one registered nurse on duty at all times). Under the Care Standards Act 200, which came into effect in April 2002, nursing homes were renamed “care homes with nursing”.
OFT
Office of Fair Trading
Residential care home
A care home providing personal care but not nursing care.
Self-funders
Individuals having sufficient funds ( i.e. above the threshold established by legally enforceable rules set out in CRAF) who pay for their care services themselves.
