Search: Care Home Vacancies Home Care Agencies Hospice Care Housing |
|
| Links:About Us Contact Us Access Agreement Checklists: Residential Care Home Care Helpful Tools: Jargon Buster Legal Matters Dependency Test
Information for Providers |
Jargon Buster Continuing Care, sometimes called long-term care, is specialist care provided and paid for by the NHS, either in hospital or a nursing home. Community Care is provided outside hospitals, in your own home or in a residential or nursing home. For older people, community care is social or nursing care rather than specialist nursing care. The social services department is not the same as the Department of Social Security (DSS), which runs the Benefits Agency and deals with Income Support and the State Retirement Pension. Discharge planning makes sure that there is a smooth move from hospital to home or care home. It may involve staff from the hospital, the community and social services. A case conference is a meeting of all the professionals involved in someone’s care, to which carers or their advocate should be asked to contribute, either by attending the meeting or expressing views which the care manager then makes known at the meeting. |