Providing Home care: an Alternative model

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Degree Introduction to health and social care (Block 1) Mind Map on Providing Home care: an Alternative model, created by Charlie_eeyore on 26/05/2013.
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Providing Home care: an Alternative model
  1. Direct Payments
    1. Benefits
      1. More Flexibility
        1. Familiarty
          1. Paid for by the local authoirty
            1. Confidence
              1. Freedom
                1. Continuity
                  1. Come and go more
                  2. Promotes independence and choice
                    1. Service users buy the care they need directly
                      1. Difficulties
                        1. Boubdaries
                      2. Personal Assistants
                        1. Difficulties
                          1. No progresssion
                            1. Lower pay
                              1. Unsocailable hours
                                1. Training oppourtunities
                                  1. Work more than paid for
                                    1. Vulnerable as dependent on relationship staying strong
                                    2. Benefits
                                      1. Choice over who they work for and with
                                        1. Higher job stasifaction
                                          1. Stronger realtionships
                                        2. Critisms of home care
                                          1. Not always the same carer
                                            1. User not in chanrge
                                              1. Does not know the client well
                                              2. Higher needs meet, according to Maslow's hierachy with Direct payments
                                                1. Not suitable for everyone children/mental impairments
                                                  1. More suited to users with long term health conditions and physical impairments
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