Providing Home care: an Alternative model

Providing Home care: an Alternative model

1. Direct Payments

   • Benefits
     • More Flexibility
     • Familiarty
     • Paid for by the local authoirty
     • Confidence
     • Freedom
     • Continuity
     • Come and go more
   • Promotes independence and choice
   • Service users buy the care they need directly
   • Difficulties
     • Boubdaries

2. Personal Assistants

   • Difficulties
     • No progresssion
     • Lower pay
     • Unsocailable hours
     • Training oppourtunities
     • Work more than paid for
     • Vulnerable as dependent on relationship staying strong
   • Benefits
     • Choice over who they work for and with
     • Higher job stasifaction
     • Stronger realtionships

3. Critisms of home care

   • Not always the same carer
   • User not in chanrge
   • Does not know the client well

4. Higher needs meet, according to Maslow's hierachy with Direct payments

5. Not suitable for everyone children/mental impairments

6. More suited to users with long term health conditions and physical impairments