Care - home assessment
Rochdale Council’s care services provide and arrange a number of
services to help vulnerable people of all ages live independently
and safely. To give you some idea, here are some of them.
- Advice, assessing needs and arranging services
- Equipment and home adaptations
- Disabled person’s parking badge
- Careline
- Home care
- Meals
- Short term breaks
- Family support
- You may also be able to arrange the service you need yourself
using a Direct Payment
Before many of these services can be arranged
for you, you first need to have your needs
assessed. We talk to you about your needs to:
- Find out about the difficulties you face
- Decide what services you need
- Check that you are a priority for these services
If your needs are simple and straighforward we
may be able to help arrange services for you when you first contact
us. Often though, we need to visit people at home to talk to them
about their needs. Anyone who visits you will always carry
identification including a photograph. They will always give an
appointment time and their contact details, so, if you need to, you
can check they are who they say they are before you let them into
your home.
- Needs assessments – more detailed information on
what needs assessments are, who does them and what happens.
- Fair access to care services - these are
the guidelines staff in Rochdale Council's Adult Care Service work
to when they assess people's needs and decide who they can and
cannot provide or arrange services for.
We can arrange an interpreter for people whose
first language is not English or a sign language interpreter for
people who are deaf or hard of hearing.
You can have a friend or relative with
you to give you support and help with your views.