Domiciliary Care News

In this section you will find news articles relevent to domiciliary care.

20th June 2011
Care of older people in their homes is so poor their human rights are being overlooked, an inquiry by the Equality and Human Rights Commission has found.

These findings relate to drop-in care involving strictly timed visits. The report found that elderly and disabled people in need of help with personal care, such as washing, dressing and toileting, and with basic needs such as provision of meals, can wait up to 17 hours in bed between visits. People are having to choose between having a wash and having a cooked meal.

With live-in care these problems are avoided. Those in need of care are not in the position of having to wait for care-givers to arrive and then being rushed. Instead, the care-giver is there for the client when they want to get up in the morning. They have plenty of time to assist them with their personal care needs, and can then provide breakfast, dinner and tea, as well as meeting all the other care needs throughout the day.

The Human Rights Commission report also found that dignity was not being respected. For us at Convivium Care, giving people their dignity is of crucial importance. The care given needs to be discreet, gentle and considerate in all respects.

Those in need of care should be given the option to have direct payments and these need to be sufficient to meet all the person's needs. Local authorities need to support clients using these direct payments for live-in care.

To read more about the Human rights Commission report go to:

< http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/em/fr/-/news/health-13813460 >