You need a Care Plan when you start having to explain to others how best to support your elder. If other family members offer help while you’re elsewhere *yay*, it saves you having to explain what to do. The care plan also expresses the current preferences of the person needing extra care.
I’d like to (try to) explain how important it is to engage early on with social services, how you do it and what to expect. Warning – this post is long, but it is important (and it’s much shorter than the ‘official’ bumpf). I’ll explain how it works in Bucks so you will need to double check for your county. In the meantime take a tea break and curl up on a sofa with this for 10 mins.
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