Care plans should be tailored to the individual but will always include these five things: Your assessed care needs, what support you should receive, your desired outcomes, which should provide care and when care should be provided.
Why should you be involved in planning your care? The more involved you are in planning your care, the more you can ensure that you will be looked after the way you want. Making your wishes known gives you more control over your life, lets you live independently for as long as possible and ensures that you can keep doing the things you enjoy.
If you need support, a care plan specifies your unique assessed needs and outlines what type of support you should get, how it will be given, and who to provide it.
A care plan is the core of what we call care coordination. This involves ensuring that the services you need from health and social care providers are up to date and based on your wishes and preferences. An advisor may look at this once a year or more often if something is changing in your life. The first thing is to ensure that what you have written down in an older plan still matches your current wishes and needs. The next step will be to consider what else might have changed in your life, what new services or supports you might need, and who could best provide them. You’ll discuss these with an advisor, and they’ll take some notes before they start to reflect on this with colleagues. Then they’ll come back to you with recommendations for how things could change, including any new service or support you might need from the NHS or Local Authority.
Our Wills cover all the key areas and ensure your final wishes are carried out correctly. Your will is one of the essential documents you'll ever make, and it gives direction to what happens when you die.
If someone close to you has died, dealing with the Estate Administration can make it extremely stressful. There are many legal and financial jobs and tasks to complete while dealing with personal grief, and let us deal with those formalities for your family at this emotional time.
Powers of attorney allow someone else to make decisions on your behalf if you can't make one for yourself. Make sure your partner, wife or close relatives have the ability to carry out your wishes if you become unable.
One-third of us need long term care in our later years. We can help you create a care plan for the future so that family members understand exactly what you want and need when planning for care. Having your Will and Probate prepared before the family needs it, talk to experts Will Probate.
Need advice on planning for care? Talk to our team.