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Reablement services are designed to be short term interventions that provide intensive and
appropriate input to assist an individual in regaining confidence and maintaining or maximising
their independence. It is important that the service is responsive and dynamic. Currently 30% of
those people who accessed reablement services did not finish their service within a 6 week
period – this is against a projected outturn of 20%.
Encouragingly the percentage of people going into ongoing services with no reablement in each
month has steadily fallen from over 67% at the start of January 2011 to 61% in March 2012.
The number of people starting ongoing services each month was projected to decrease to less
than 200 by the end of 2011/12, whilst the percentage of these who do not receive reablement
services first is planned to fall to 55% a month. Arrangements for monthly monitoring are in
place, which will enable all teams to review their progress and performance against these
targets.
Whilst the number of people ending reablement services each month has varied considerably,
the percentage of people who went on to receive adult care services immediately after
reablement had been increasing slowly, averaging 51% in 2010. Encouragingly, in 2011/12 the
average for the year has fallen to 47%.
Assistive Technology:
A key part of the reshaping of support is the increased use and application of assistive
technology (telecare and telehealth). There is a programme in place to increase usage of both
technologies. There was a waiting list for telecare assessments in GCC in 2010 and this has
been cleared during 2011-12 with input from GCS. Further work is also required to mainstream
telecare installations into the community teams in all except complex cases, there is
improvement in place to support this.
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