domiciliary services

Domiciliary services These are provided under three major pieces of legislation.

One of the principal domiciliary services is that of home helps.

Apart from these comments there is a general assumption that domiciliary services should be non-specialised.

Developments in day care, the home help service and other domiciliary services were the currency of growth in these departments.

Domiciliary services can help the handicapped and their families, especially when the mental disability is accompanied by physical handicap.

It seems probable that compulsory competitive tendering will be introduced, once voluntary and commercial suppliers of domiciliary services are in a stronger position.

The general provisions for residential and domiciliary services are enacted in the Social Work (Scotland) Act (1968).

Most sheltered housing schemes are extremely successful and together with the domiciliary services allow some old people to retain their independence and their interest in life.

In order to effect such a transfer a whole variety of different agencies may be involved including remedial therapists, GPs, social work, community nursing and domiciliary services.

The statutory responsibilities of social service authorities for elderly people cover three main areas of provision, residential accommodation, domiciliary services and protective powers for those most vulnerable.

Day, outpatient and domiciliary services are usually unsegregated, but the "memory clinic" described by Philpott and Levy (1987) provides a new example of potentially useful segregation.

A need for adequate protection in the field of residential care, and to a lesser extent in relation to the provision of domiciliary services, has been advocated for some years.

The government decided against the enforcement of competitive tendering in the domiciliary services, but this was largely because of the undeveloped state of private and voluntary agencies in this area.

The chairperson of the UK Homecare Association has claimed that, because the profit margins in the domiciliary services are relatively small, there is a danger of corner-cutting and slipping standards.

And what is the final legal remedy for someone whose contracted-out domiciliary services are grossly inadequate or whose independent residential home will no longer accept them because they have run out of savings for fees?

The day and domiciliary services of the local authority can be brought to bear if relevant - day care of small children can help enormously in many family problems where the welfare of children is at risk.

This increase in private care may reflect both the financial incentives to increase the number of places available and an increased demand for care brought about by an increasingly frail population and the decreased availability of domiciliary services.

The teams will provide specialist rehabilitation programmes for patients to help increase energy and activity levels and develop local domiciliary services covering health, education and social care needs for more severely affected patients who may be housebound or bedridden.

Yeo told Community Care that 'thematic monitoring' of SSDs would start around the middle of the year, looking at how effectively money is being spent, user choice, and development of the independent sector and domiciliary services.

I mean no disrespect to the geriatric branch of the hospital service nor to the domiciliary services or the rapidly increasing old people's houses and homes provided by local housing, health and welfare authorities when I say that I believe we are still groping and fumbling with this problem - all of us, social scientists and politicians alike.