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Relias

DECEMBER 13, 2021

The increased pressure of the COVID-19 pandemic has presented never-before-seen growth opportunities for home health agencies and their workforce, as Bill Dombi, President of the National Association of Home Care and Hospice (NAHC), noted in a December 2021 webinar titled The State of Home Health.

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The Guardian

APRIL 19, 2022

The federal government last year pledged $6.5bn to fund an extra 80,000 home care packages to alleviate the huge unmet demand from Australia’s ageing population, after the royal commission warned of “unacceptable” delays. Sign up to receive an email with the top stories from Guardian Australia every morning Continue reading.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Staff shortages are driving a “rapidly deteriorating situation” for people needing care and their carers, directors warned today. Seven in eight commissioners paying below ‘minimum rate for home care’. across adult social care in October 2021, from 6.2% in March, according to Skills for Care figures.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 20, 2023

The number of registered care home beds shrank by 0.6% in the year to July 2023, and home care providers deemed hard to replace delivered almost 15% fewer hours’ care in the first three months of 2023 compared to the same period in 2021.

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Community Care

JANUARY 10, 2023

In relation to home care, a third who previously received it were now getting no support. But while councils may have exposed themselves to legal challenge, no such litigation took place – to the authors’ knowledge – besides adverse decisions from the Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman.

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The Guardian

JULY 15, 2024

Authorities say attempts to clear NHS backlogs sucking up scant funds at expense of preventive care Vulnerable people face being denied basic preventive social care at home due to a wave of rapid discharges from hospitals that is sucking up resources, council bosses have warned.

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Community Care

JANUARY 8, 2023

This will include investing in home care in Warwickshire, rehabilitation and reablement in Leeds and additional support for people with dementia in Greater Manchester. NHS to get most of £500m winter adult social care funding. Minimum price of home care to rise by 12% next year, says provider body.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Providers predict cuts to care and jobs The CPA found that, without further government assistance: 73% would have to refuse new care packages from local authorities or the NHS. Among the 479 home care respondents, 42.9% planned to shorten care visits. 77% would have to draw on reserves. ”

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Community Care

JANUARY 16, 2023

The vacancy rate for adult care staff in England climbed from 7% to 10.7% in October 2022, according to Skills for Care data from a selection of providers. The situation is particularly bad in home care, where 14.1% of care home and home care staff, in the week up to 14 December 2022.

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Community Care

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Sixty per cent of community social care services in England have no or an ‘outdated’ performance rating, an analysis of Care Quality Commission (CQC) data has found. It said authorities were spreading the home care hours they commissioned among multiple providers, with some contracting with about 200 organisations.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

The Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS) issued the warning after councils published the results of costs of care exercises they were required to undertake by the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) by 1 February. per hour gap for home care but suggested there was no gap for nursing home fees.

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The Guardian

JULY 12, 2023

One in five firms see risk of financial failure in next six months due to sums owed by NHS and councils Dozens of home care companies in England fear collapse because invoices are going unpaid by councils and the NHS.

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The Guardian

APRIL 21, 2022

While deaths not linked to delays, wait times for home care on the National Priority Scheme remain high, despite recent improvements Get our free news app ; get our morning email briefing More than 50,000 older Australians have died while on the waiting list for home care in recent years, data which Labor says shows the system is still in crisis.

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Community Care

MARCH 3, 2023

Councils underfunded home care and older people’s care home services in England by just under £2.9bn in 2021-22, according to an analysis by provider bodies. Sustainability plans due The next stage of the fair cost process is for councils to publish market sustainability plans by 27 March 2023.

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Community Care

JANUARY 9, 2023

The money is on top of £500m already earmarked for ICBs and councils to clear hospital beds, part of which was allocated last month and which the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) said would be well spent on home care, in order to reduce delayed discharges. Risk of inappropriate placements. as of October 2022.

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Community Care

DECEMBER 10, 2021

In a snapshot survey of members in November, the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services found mounting waiting lists for assessments and personal budgets and a 164% increase in commissioned home care hours left undelivered between May-July and August-September.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

AUGUST 1, 2021

Since that time, we have made vast systemic improvements, including reducing entries into care and reducing our out-of-home care population by 24%.” But the problem with “Rule #23” is it only works if newer data are not available – so we have to take the agency’s word for it. Tough luck, DCS: In this case, we have the data.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

between the amount English commissioners paid domiciliary care providers and the fees required to pay staff the current NLW of £10.42. The finding was based on comparing data from 99% of councils and 52% of NHS integrated care boards (ICBs) against the association’s the minimum price for home care, which was £25.95

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Relias

MAY 6, 2022

Routine or continuous home care provided in an assisted living facility. Medicare officials have identified 14 target areas as “risky” for improper payment, Cooley said, including three new ones in 2021. Some of these target areas include: Lengthy stays. Live discharges where a patient is not terminally ill or for revocation.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Claim of £1bn shortfall in home care fees The Homecare Association has calculated that there is a £1bn shortfall in the home care fees paid by councils and the NHS in 2024-25 compared with what providers in England need to pay staff the NLW, meet other costs and make a 5% profit.

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The Guardian

JUNE 29, 2022

Home care helps more than 200,000 older Australians stay at home, playing a critical role in relieving pressure on Australia’s residential aged care system and ensuring independence for the nation’s ageing population.

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Community Care

JULY 17, 2024

This will have significant implications for the home care sector, with a recent Homecare Association survey finding that two-thirds of providers offer zero-hour contracts to their staff.

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Jaeran Kim

AUGUST 11, 2017

The first is an article written from my research on adoptive parents who placed an intercountry adopted child in out-of-home care due to the child’s disability. Out-of-home placement may be necessary when less restrictive services have not adequately addressed an adopted child’s needs.

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Shelter, Inc

MAY 12, 2022

Including kin and extended family members in case planning expands placement and permanency options for children and youth when in-home care is not feasible. Investing in culturally appropriate services and supports for relative and kin caregivers may help reinforce a child’s cultural identity and traditions.

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Community Care

APRIL 8, 2022

Vacancies continue to be worst in the home care sector, reaching 13% last month, up from 12.8% and care workers 12.2%. Also, employers have been permitted to recruit care workers from abroad since February – but only if they earn £10.10 in February and 7.6% in May 2021. this month, to £9.50 an hour.

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Relias

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Dementia care is one of the most challenging types of patient care in every setting — from in-home care to assisted living, skilled nursing facilities, and hospitals. Having a care team with the competence to handle the complex challenges of people living with dementia is vital to providing respectful and optimal care.

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The Guardian

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

In Marseille, I find agency bosses desperate to fill shifts, families desperate to secure care for loved ones and a system that places no value on the work Who keeps Europe’s wealthy west going? Underpaid, invisible migrants from its east – and I went undercover to find them Undercover as a farm worker in Germany: ‘My hands are numb.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

to 9.5% , they were below levels for nurses (14.6%), personal assistants (13.1%), home care staff (13%), registered managers (12.8%) and frontline care staff generally (11.8%) , as of April 2022. While vacancy rates rose for council adults’ practitioners from 2020-21, from 7.5%

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

” Anybody can just fill out a form and the outcome from that is day care, respite, home care or residential care. It doesn’t have to be a lifetime of day care or home care or peers following them around all the time. It’s one of the easiest things to do in social work.

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Community Care

JANUARY 30, 2023

The letter follows concerns from social care leaders about the government’s allocation of £200m to the NHS this winter to help reduce delays by block-booking care home placements for up to four weeks. This is in addition to £500m made available for a wider range of services to reduce delays, including home care.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 25, 2023

And here's the problem with the “secondary analysis” that’s supposedly to determine “the relationship between child maltreatment in out-of-home care and child characteristics”: If your sample omits the overwhelming majority of the abuse, there’s no way to know if those few cases agencies will admit to are even a representative sample.

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KVC

APRIL 18, 2024

Building Expertise in Serving Children & Families While KVC started as a small group home for boys, we’ve since learned from research that residential group home care is not the ideal living situation for most children. Instead, “Children grow best in families.”

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Relias

APRIL 13, 2023

Understanding how to communicate effectively with people with dementia is vital for healthcare professionals in various settings, including home care, assisted living facilities, hospitals, and hospices. People with dementia struggle to express their needs, thoughts, and feelings as their disease progresses.

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Relias

APRIL 13, 2023

Understanding how to communicate effectively with people with dementia is vital for healthcare professionals in various settings, including home care, assisted living facilities, hospitals, and hospices. People with dementia struggle to express their needs, thoughts, and feelings as their disease progresses.

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Community Care

JUNE 21, 2023

By Mithran Samuel and Dan Parton Adults’ services teams have cut care and assessment waiting lists by 60,000 since last summer and are arranging more home care, but continue to struggle with mounting need. Councils also commissioned 30% more home care hours from January to March 2023 (54.5

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

The government’s own estimates showing just short of 40,000 jobs being lost in the care home sector from its introduction of mandatory Covid-19 vaccination for staff. Home care providers predicting a significant exodus of staff from the introduction of mandatory vaccination in domiciliary care from April next year.

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