Providing Home care: an Alternative model

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

Resource summary

	Created by Charlie_eeyore almost 11 years ago