Review of the Implementation of the Northern Ireland Single ...

ehabilitation and treatment to enable people to return home
following hospitalisation; or to prevent admission to a long term
residential care or nursing home; or intensive care at home to
prevent unnecessary hospital admission.
Long term
condition
Main carer:
Monitoring
Illnesses which lasts longer than a year, usually degenerative,
causing limitations to one‟s physical, mental and/or social wellbeing.
Multiple long term conditions make care particularly
complex.
The main provider of care for someone.
On-going oversight of people‟s needs and circumstances to
ensure the quality and continued appropriateness of support
and services to meet the agreed outcomes for the individual
and, where appropriate, his/her carer(s). The person receiving
the services, his/her authorised representative and carer(s),
where appropriate, and service providers all have a part to play
in formal and informal monitoring.
Respite care
Sitting service
Short term care, usually in a care home, but possibly at home
with the assistance of professional carers, which usually gives
the main carer a break.
A service which involves a worker or volunteer going into an
older person‟s home to provide care whilst the carer takes a
break for up six hours.
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