Thriving in residential care. 1.6m people are struggling to get the care they need or any care at all.
Of course people want to live in their own homes, but proper support and care can be essential, to thrive, at home or anywhere.
Sadly, in pursuit of staying home, but cutting costs, for hundreds of thousands, that can mean a lonely life, imprisoned by 4 walls, and if any support is funded, (and that's increasingly less likely), it is often minimalistic, task based and addresses only the basic and most mundane tasks.
We are perfectly capable of providing better, proper holistic and rounded support that supports a life worth living and, as the Eden Alternative, we work with providers who do exactly that brilliantly, but, it's less likely to be the case on council funded packages, especially when contractual visits are limited to 30 minutes or even 15.
Then, for a number of people, living unassisted at home for the majority of time is just not a sensible option or a life of fulfillment. In fact, it may have become very challenging, highly stressful and / or unsafe.
Then there are residential options. There are residential homes supporting everything, throughout 24hrs x 365 days. There are literally thousands of brilliant residential homes that deliver 'home' from home, (even if all you hear about is not that).
It's perfectly possible, it does happen in thousands of places, even where they are funded by councils or the NHS.
The Eden Alternative works with a number both working in people's home and in residential care (like my own homes) and through a validation process, see and hears an abundance of stories of achievement, fulfillment and loving companionship, that can help make later life, an amazing chapter in life.
We just need to want to do that that as a society, find it, yet in large parts, we just don't bother, and, it starts with government and care commissioning , which is archaic, and why we have a mismatch, in so many things, which we just don't do very well. You know the long list.
But we can in home care and residential care, it already happens in many settings and as this research sets out above, and with people like My Home life, https://lnkd.in/etNHAKXQ,
Eden Alternative, https://lnkd.in/eppdM6sD,
Meaningful care matters https://lnkd.in/eQsN58GP, and many others, there are plenty who know exactly how, and why it's critical, and can help make it happen.
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Missed our research launch yesterday?
?? Watch it online!
Our Research Fellow Dr B Morgan Brett shared powerful real-life stories from older people, families and care teams about their experiences of residential care.
Whilst people did describe some challenges, we heard proportionally many more benefits of living in a care home.
Catch up here! ??
https://lnkd.in/e8GhFf6Z
Also with presentations from Vic Rayner OBE and Stephen Burke on behalf of Hallmark Foundation.
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1 个月That's awesome! So happy to see this ??