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Home care change promotes independence



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Published Date: 11 October 2008
HOME care for some elderly and vulnerable people in the Capital is to be changed.
Beginning on Monday, people receiving such support will have the emphasis shifted from having things done for them to being helped to do various everyday tasks such as washing and dressing.

Tagged "re-ablement", the purpose of the change is to give people incentives to help themselves and gradually become more independent. It will be carried out at the patients' pace and over a six-week period, initially piloted in the south-east of the city.

Cllr Paul Edie, health and social care leader, said: "Our home care staff deliver an essential service to some of the city's most vulnerable people, enabling them to lead the most independent life possible.

"Although re-ablement is an innovative idea in Scotland, it has been widely used in England and with much success. It has proven to maximise people's long-term independence, choice and quality of life, while responding to the growth in demand for home care services."





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  • Last Updated: 11 October 2008 11:26 AM
  • Source: Edinburgh Evening News
  • Location: Edinburgh
 
1

Artemis,

11/10/2008 12:51:52
Re-ablement? Why not call it what it is - rehabilitation? It's not a new concept - occupational therapists have been doing it for years.
2

brettgallacher,

edinburgh 11/10/2008 13:13:54
150 000 of tax payers money just to change a name on the forms now, and who said theres a credit crunch
3

Pinkie,

Edinburgh 11/10/2008 15:43:11
If anyone has been through the Direct Payment "Mill" for help for the elderly - they should get a Victoria Cross for Bravery in the face of Adversity and a complementary degree in Accounting and Employment Law.

The system seems to be deliberately engineered to make it as difficult as possible - while the Scottish Goverment and Councils get accolades for the care of our Elderly in Scotland as opposed to other parts of this Sceptered Isle.

The Care of our Elderly in the UK is a disgrace - no matter what semantics are cobbled up by the bureaucrats.
4

bluehead,

edinburgh 13/10/2008 11:46:50
what they mean is that it is cheaper that way,they haven't got a clue what is best for the elderly,this lot should be made redundant,let's have people who really understand the needs of those vulnerable people,
in a proper manner,it doesn't take much to understand what help the old people need,things go from bad to worse these days.
5

MyNameIsntAllowed,

edinburgh 22/10/2008 01:12:24
What the council is doing is possibly illegal and certainly unethical: enforcing a supposedly therapeutic regime without the informed consent of clients. It appears to discriminate against chronic or progressive illnesses in making them less important than those that can be, er, "re-abled".

It's a cynical spin on saving money but also a rather sinister judgementalism over the disabled, but this bunch of chancers is nothing if not disablist from what sick and disabled people have had to put with over the years.

I awoke on Monday to find that my daily home care service I'd received for over ten years is to stop after this week with only one day for shopping. I am housebound and virtually bedbound with a very severe, chronic neurological illness which is not expected to improve and my own GP knows the prognosis is poor, but obviously these council incompetents know better.

 

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