be in residential care

Can people use the program if they are in residential care facilities or retirement homes?

Elaine gets a lot more help than many disabled people, and some would say she is lucky not to be in residential care.

Someone who has been in residential care for a number of years may initially find independent living a frightening prospect.

Before this placement, I had been in residential care (the politically correct name for an orphanage).

First, remember all those people who were in residential care on 31 March enjoy the right to have their future care costs met by social security.

According to official statistics quoted by the United Nations, 334,000 children aged up to 17 are in residential care, which is 25 times the rate in Britain.

Outpatient programs, in which there are counseling and attendance at Alcoholics Anonymous meetings, are indicated for perhaps more than half the people who are in residential care.

"My rule of thumb is if our children had to be in residential care, I would want the group home to be free of violence, drugs, alcohol, prejudice and scapegoating.

She initiated training for matrons of residential homes, pressed for the chiropody service which is now available and urged that pensioners should have their own pocket money when they were in residential care.

In the early stages many of the children had been in residential care for periods of years, had little or no contact with members of the natural family and had lost all serious hope of returning there.

Some 4,000 troubled young people in Flanders, and 10,000 in the Netherlands, are in residential care because of their psycho-social problems (Lammertyn and Antoons, 1990; Ploeg, 1990).

Many people who care or who are cared for find it difficult to understand why they cannot get the resources for that care when such vast amounts go towards people who are in residential care.

By contrast Mrs Cowan, s son-in-law said that it was no trouble to him to visit his mother-in-law every day and help take care of her, but that he would ideally prefer her to be in residential care because there she would have constant care and companionship, which was what she really needed.