Maintaining Health

The Facts

Every year thousands more people go into residential and nursing care because they are unable to be cared for by family or friends:

• 30% of households have one person living alone (that´s 7 million households)
• 4.1m people over the age of 50 live alone
• 55% of people over 50 years old do not have a living relative within a 1/2 hour journey time
• 14% of all households are single pensioners

What is it?

Our Maintaining Health services provide assistance in the home for a range of activities which can best be described as helping to ensure the service user can maintain their health and dietary requirements.

Examples of such activities may include:

• Meal Preparation – Helping to prepare a meal, ensuring there is adequate food for other times of the day, ensuring all work surfaces are cleaned, etc.
• Assistance with medicines – collect prescriptions, provide medication assistance It may be the case that the day–to– day management of these tasks present a significant challenge to the service user and assistance with them can be a very valuable service.

Our Objective

To ensure that our service users have all the assistance they requiring in helping them to maintain their health, whilst being able to do so in the safety and comfort of their own home.

How can we help?

Our maintaining health services can provide assistance with a wide range of activities, including those detailed above. By providing this assistance we aim to meet the service users wider needs, including:

• Helping maintain health and dietary requirements
• Encouraging choice and independence
• Providing assistance in ensuring medication is collected and available
• Reassurance that medication has been taken/received

– We are only a phone call away. Use our Branch Finder to find out your nearest Medico office.

Further Information:

www.doh.gov.uk – The Department of Health