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Greater London: Independent living > Home from hospital services services
Home from hospital services provide short term practical help for elderly people returning to their home after a period in hospital. These are designed to help people re-adjust to living at home again, gain in confidence, and provide short term practical help after hospital discharge.
The assistance provided can include help with dressing, undressing, and personal hygiene, fetching shopping or prescriptions, going to the post office or bank for you, accompanying you to hospital, GP, optician or hairdresser appointments, liaising with a range of other services on your behalf, providing essential food on the day of discharge from hospital, helping you sort out any paperwork or bills, arranging for furniture to be moved around, offering a friendly chat, encouraging you to take medication, and possibly giving benefits advice.
These services offer after care visiting immediately after discharge from hospital especially for older people who live alone. Home care after a hospital stay services aim to make sure that you can go home and live safely. Home care after a hospital stay services provides time limited services for patients returning home from hospital after illness, surgery or accident. Many elderly people are fit to return home, but need some assistance with personal care and/or other support in the early days of discharge to regain their confidence and strength. At the end of the short term help, people are often able to remain at home without any further help.
A range of different organisations provide short term home from hospital services for older people including health care organisations, local authority adult social care services , the voluntary sector, and commercial home care organisations. Many providers do not charge for the short term help, although commercial companies do charge for their services.
Discharge from hospital should always be planned and arranged by a team which will include, or have links with, Social Services and Health (the Primary Care Trust). Patients and their carers should be given adequate warning of the precise date and time of leaving hospital. There should be contingency planning for Friday afternoon or weekend discharges, and the home of a patient living alone should be properly prepared for their return. A range of services may be provided that will help you recover when you leave hospital. These could be Therapists, Care Assistants or Nurses which can be provided in your own home.
41 - 60 of 82 Home from hospital services services in Greater London.
Adult Social Care
The aim of adult social care services is to enable residents who are eligible for social care funding to: gain maximum independence make choices about their care stay healthy and safe and increase their ability to ...
Contact: London Borough of Hammersmith & Fulham, 145-155 King Street, London, W6 9XY.
Adult Social Care
In 2011-12, Haringey Adult and Community Services provided and funded social care services (personal care, day services, meals, telecare, telehealth and extra care (very sheltered care) to over 3,700 vulnerable adults an...
Contact: London Borough of Haringey, 40 Cumberland Road, London, N22 7SG.
Adult Social Care
We aim to support people to live independently in their own homes or where this is not possible, to provide alternative care arrangements that allow them to be as independent as possible. First steps Everyone who i...
Contact: London Borough of Harrow.
Social care and wellbeing
Provides care and support services to older people living in Hillingdon.Services provided can include:• healthcare • equipment • help in your home or i...
Contact: London Borough of Hillingdon, Civic Centre High Street, Uxbridge, Middlesex, UB8 1UW.
Adult Social Care
We can provide information on equipment and people (paid carers) to help you stay living at home and day services and activities to help you stay active. We also have a range of information on taking medication, managin...
Contact: London Borough of Hounslow, Civic Centre Lampton Road, Hounslow, Middlesex, TW3 4DN.
Social Care and Health
We want everyone to be healthy and well and to live as independently as possible. So, we provide services and support for a wide range of health and social needs...Services provided can include:• h...
Contact: London Borough of Islington, 222 Upper Street, London, N1 1XR.
Adult Social Care
Provide care and support services to older people living in the Lambeth area. Services provided can include: • healthcare • equipment • help in you...
Contact: London Borough of Lambeth, 10 Phoenix House, Wandsworth Road, London, SW8 2LL.
Adult Social Care
In Lewisham we want to help people keep well and live independently. Services provided can include: • healthcare • equipment • help in yo...
Contact: London Borough of Lewisham.
Adult Social Care
Services for women over the age of 60 and men over 65. Contacting Social Services for Older People Keeping warm in winter Lunch clubs Meals on wheels Residential and nursing care services Care and sheltered housi...
Contact: Adult social care, Merton Civic Centre London Road, Morden, Surrey, SM4 5DX.
Adult Support Services Directory
Services for women over the age of 60 and men over 65. Contacting Social Services for Older People Keeping warm in winter Lunch clubs Meals on wheels Residential and nursing care services Care and sheltered housi...
Contact: Adult social care, Merton Civic Centre London Road, Morden, Surrey, SM4 5DX.
Staying independent at home
help and support for older people in Merton: Day centresDomiciliary care providers forumHome help and careLunch clubsHelp leaving hospitalMascot Telecare community alarm serviceReablement service short term help at home...
Contact: Adult social care, Merton Civic Centre London Road, Morden, Surrey, SM4 5DX.
Adult Social Care
We want people to live as independently as possible within the community. Services provided can include: • healthcare • equipment • help in your ho...
Contact: London Borough of Newham.
Staying in your home
Find out about what support services are available to help you live in your own home as independently as possible.
Contact: London Borough of Redbridge, Aldborough Road North, Ilford, Essex, IG2 7SR.
Adult Social Care
Provides care and support services for older people living in Richmon Upon ThamesServices provided can include:• healthcare • equipment • help in your ...
Contact: London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, 44 Civic Centre York Street, Twickenham, Middlesex, TW1 3BZ.
Adult Social Care
The Contact Adult Social Care team can: Provide an initial screening of older people's needs and liaise with social workers who can assess what services you may require Provide information about services in Southwark...
Contact: London Borough of Southwark, 132 Queens Road, London, SE15 2HP.
Adult Social Care
We work to support older people, people with a physical disability, sensory impairment, long-term illness, mental health or learning disability, and we also organise services to meet carers' needs. We aim to ensure that ...
Contact: London Borough of Sutton, Civic Offices St. Nicholas Way, Sutton, Surrey, SM1 1EA.
Services for older people
Tower Hamlets provides a wide range of care, support and assistance to adults in need of these services and live in the borough. The services we provide range from giving advice and information through to long-term resi...
Contact: Adult Social Care.
Adult Social Care
Any adult living in Waltham Forest, or their family and friends, can come to us to find out about social care or other services that may meet their needs. We provide guidance and information to help you find help and sup...
Contact: London Borough of Waltham Forest, Waltham Forest Town Hall Forest Road, London, E17 4JF.
Adult Social Care
You can ask us for information, and sometimes this may be enough to sort out a problem. Or we may be able to give you information about other services that could help.Services provided can include:• ...
Contact: London Borough of Wandsworth, Town Hall Wandsworth High Street, London, SW18 2PU.
Managing Care
Managing Care provide a range of flexible care services in your own home, tailored to your individual needs. Our services can be booked from just 1 hour per week to anything up to 24 hours per day. Range of home care s...
Contact: Managing Care, 9 Disraeli Road, Putney, London, SW15 2DR.