Extra Care Housing Enabling More Older People And Those With Dementia And Long-term Conditions To Live In A Home Of Their Own, UK
Extra Care Housing Enabling More Older People And Those With Dementia And Long-term Conditions To Live In A Home Of Their Own, UK: "Health and Care Minister Ivan Lewis today (Monday 21 July) announced the sites that will benefit from £80million of Government funding to build extra care housing, enabling more older people and those with dementia and long-term conditions to live in a home of their own...People who are unable to continue to live in their own homes have traditionally had their choices limited to care homes, creating a number of problems including couples finding they can no longer live together.
Extra care housing gives people a home of their own where wide ranges of care and support services are provided on site. Tenants enjoy greater privacy, dignity and independence, couples can stay together, and social and leisure opportunities can be enjoyed at the resident's convenience. In addition, homeowners may be able to keep some of the equity in their property."
From our experience with Gan Gan extra care accommodation works really well for him and he now has severe dementia but appears most settled when in his apartment as compared to say the hospital or one of the family's houses when the change in surroundings makes him very agitated indeed. One of the saddest aspects of his decline is the inability to take pleasure from most everything apart from his cigaretts, it is a battle to get him to eat anything, he does not ask for a beer, cannot follow TV shows nor read his daily paper. So sad...
posted by Jen @ 3:15 AM
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