Relative Matters: the essential guide to finding your way around the care system for older people - Softcover

Moon-Willems, Chris

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1907498974 ISBN 13: 9781907498978

Publisher: Book Shaker, 2012

Synopsis

FULLY REVISED AND UPDATED 2014 More people than ever are having to fund their own care without professional help to navigate what has become a very complex care system. This book sets out all your options in an easy to digest format so that you will feel confident about planning for your loved one's care and avoid the mistakes and massive disruption that comes from supporting an elderly relative without a professional to support you.

When you read this book you will be able to:

1. Better navigate the complex British care system for older people
2. Choose a homecare agency or care home with confidence
3. Be aware of the essential care standards you can expect from a registered care service
4. Understand the accommodation, care and support options available for older people
5. Find out whether your elderly loved one may be entitled to NHS or social care funding
6. Look out for signs of abuse and know what to do if you suspect abuse of a vulnerable person
7. And much more...

About this title

About the Author

Chris Moon-Willems is an independent care consultant, who specialised in care of the elderly during her professional and post qualifying social work training. She worked with older people for more than thirty years in Social Services and the NHS. This involved working directly with people in a hospital for older people and in the community as well as managing care homes and being responsible for residential, day, home care and hospital discharge services.

Chris became one of the pioneers of personal budgets, and their influence on personalisation, at a national and local level in social care and the NHS. She also gained important insight into personalisation when her parents were among the first older people in the country to be given a personal budget using a direct payment to buy their own services.

Chris has been caring for her parents for the past five years. She arranged their care package and monitored and adjusted it as their health deteriorated and dependence increased. She presented her parents' story about their journey from traditional "off the shelf" services to highly personalised support, to inform and inspire other Social and NHS Services about personal budgets and direct payments for the elderly across the South East region. She appeared on Breakfast TV and was interviewed on the radio for the same purpose.

Chris has since created a dynamic business, also called Relative Matters, devoted to serving the needs of relatives caring for their elderly loved ones. What started out as a simple desire to share the story of her own journey with her elderly parents propelled her into writing this book and developing her new business.

Edition details

• Publisher: Book Shaker
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1907498974
• ISBN 13: 9781907498978
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 348