Publications - care at home

If you would like a copy of any of these publications in another format, for example, large print, audio, braille, easy to read (uses words and pictures to make it easy to understand), or in another language, please contact Adult Services on 0845 603 5630

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  Guide to Better Care and Support

  Published annually. Currently Spring 2013 - Spring 2014

  Practical information on all aspects of independent living as well as support for you, your family and other carers. Includes detailed listings of organisations providing home care services.

  
  Download the following Guide to Better Care and Support pdf's:

   

• Front cover  232 kB
• Pages 1-6  2 MB:
  Contents list, Extra care housing and forward by Councillor Felicity Hindson Executive Member for Adult Social Care
• Pages 7-31  2 MB:
  Chapter 1 - How to use this guide and other soursces of help
  Chapter 2 - -Your health
  Chapter 3 - Help with living at home
• Pages 32-55  573 kB:
  Chapter 4 - Getting out and about
  Chapetr 5 -  Support for people living with disabilities
• Pages 56-67  2 MB:
  Chapter 6 - Choosing home care services
  Chapter 7 - Paying for your care and support
  Chapter 8 - Financial help and advice
• Pages 68-76  469 kB:
  Chapter 9 - Help making decisions
  Chapter 10 - Protecting people from abuse
  Chapter 11 - Advice and support for carers, family and friends
• Home care orgainisations - see the search for home care providers

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  Making a contribution to your personal budget for social care

  (for care services that support you to live at home)

  October 2011
  
  

  Hampshire County Council has produced this booklet to explain how you will be assessed to work out how much you and the Council need to pay towards your personal budget for social care.

  Download a copy of Making a contribution to your personal budget for social care  206kb

  Download a copy of Having to pay for your support  2mb (an easy read version of Making a contribution to your personal budget for social care)

   

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  Leaving hospital and returning home

  October 2009
  
  The leaflet "Leaving Hospital and Returning Home" gives information on what will happen before you are discharged from hospital and provides useful information and contact details, should you find you need some assistance when you return home.

  Download a copy of Leaving hospital and returning home  441kb

   

Forms

Important - please note: These forms are for information only and should not be completed and sent directly to HCC. Funding for residential care is only agreed after a care assessment has been completed.

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  Statement of Financial Circumstances - SAS10

  February 2007

  Form for collecting information about financial circumstances, so that any charge for care at home services can be worked out. This form also includes the SAS10A and the SAS10B

  
  

  Download a copy of SAS10  119kb

   

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