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Carers sought for ‘rewarding’ respite scheme
The Shared Lives scheme, run by West Sussex County Council
Shared Lives carer, Jane Baskerville, with Richard Brooks and dogs Lucy and Larry
The Shared Lives scheme, run by West Sussex County Council, already has 73 carers providing care for 115 adults, but now the council wants to expand it. Under the initiative, adults who would normally live in residential care stay in a family environment with the carers.
Under the initiative, adults who would normally live in residential care stay in a family environment with the carers.
These respite placements can be short or long-term.
It is hoped the scheme could eventually be expanded to provide placements for the elderly, vulnerable mothers and babies and young offenders.
Martin and Jane Baskerville, of Brooklyn Avenue, Worthing, have been carers for 14 years and are keen believers in the approach, which they say tends to be of more benefit than living in larger care homes.
Would the integration of health and social care promote independent living?
Medical intervention is appropriate for people who are sick, but not normally for people who are well – whether they are disabled or not
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Jane Young
- Guardian Professional,
Norman Lamb has been the care services minister at the Department of Health for just a few weeks, and it seems that the integration of health and social care services is one of his key interests and policy aims.
But there appears to be scant consideration, by Norman Lamb, Dan Poulter or indeed the health secretary, Jeremy Hunt, of whether such integration would actually deliver independent living for working age disabled adults – or, for that matter, for older disabled adults.
The pioneers of independent living, back in the 1970s and 80s, did not consider independent living support to have much in common with health services.
County’s carers are missing out on help
Published on Thursday 8 November 2012 08:48
Research has shown that the county’s carers are missing out on free help because they don’t think of themselves as carers.
An estimated 100,000 people are unaware of the help available to them and a countywide campaign is being launched by Lancashire County Council, in partnership with Carers Lancashire, to let carers know that advice, information and practical support is only a phone call away.
Joanne McMaster, carers’ strategy officer at Lancashire County Council, said: “You don’t necessarily have to live in the same house or be related to the person you look after to count as a carer.
