AGE CONCERN DACORUM
- HALF MOON YARD, HIGH STREET, BOVINGDON
HP1 3AE HEMEL HEMPSTEAD, HERTFORDSHIRE
Phone: +44 (0) 1442 259049
Fax: +44(0) 1404 822297
E-mail: Send messagewww.acherts.org.uk
Short profile:
Home Matters enables older people to organise and manage their personal finances and household administration. The services is free to all users and aims to enable people to remain independent for as long as possible. A member of our Home Matters team will visit you at home and listen to your concerns. Our friendly. Home Matters Team can help with: contacting utility companies, organising the payment of bills, setting up a bank account, form filling, for example, blue badge applications, looking at household budgets, organising a move.
Detailed description:
We don't always need someone else to arrange social care support for us - this is known, quite simply, as self-directed support. We have put together some help and advice around relevant legislation‚ the requirements of local authorities‚ current limitations and practical guidance. As there is no new legislation on which the government’s ‘personalisation’ policy has been based, it is necessary to show its legal foundations in the development of direct payments legislation and related guidance, and to emphasise that existing rights to social care provision have not changed.
This includes your right to be able to make informed choices whilst receiving the necessary levels of safeguarding from risks. Self directed assessment and support planning require appropriate information, advice and ongoing support to enable you to experience the overall aim of greater choice and control over service provision and funding arrangements.
You should not feel pressed into taking on more responsibility than you feel is necessary with regard to the planning and funding of your care package and you should be assisted to make arrangements that best suit your capacity and aims.
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