Resource Centres for Older People

What services are available?

Some of our residential homes are no longer providing long-term residential care. Instead we are developing these units to be Resource Centres, helping older people to remain in their own home.

Centres providing help with rehabilitation, dementia and mental health problems are being set up in each of the four Primary Care Trust areas.

Rehabilitation

After an operation, illness or fall it can take time to regain skills, learn new ways of doing things and gain the confidence to live at home. Rehabilitation offers a stay of 6 to 8 weeks to help you with:

becoming mobile again
washing and dressing
cooking and daily tasks

There are also opportunities to meet people and socialise.

The centres can help when an older person or their carer needs a short stay, either regularly or in an emergency. They can also help someone leaving hospital to become more confident and independent whilst the services they need to cope at home are put in place.

Community Services

Our resource centres also provide:

day care – helping more people with longer days, services at the weekend and flexible transport
outreach workers – accompanying older people to appointments and helping with trips to the shops, and offering companionship
a night visiting service at Longley Resource Centre and Hazelhurst Resource Centre, that helps older people in their own homes during the night giving support to both the older person and their carer

To maintain the well being of local people the centres provide:

Chiropody
Hearing Aid care
Help with laundry
Help with bathing
Breathe easy groups

The centres act as a base for Agewell groups and local lunch clubs. They are developing a wide variety of activities including:

Life long learning
RSVP volunteers
Reminiscence sessions
Arts and Crafts
Coffee Mornings
Carers groups
Hairdressing and makeovers
Flying laptops

Dementia

Four homes for older people with dementia are earmarked to become Resource Centres. New long-term residents are no longer being admitted at Norbury and Foxwood, as they are now developing new services. However existing residents are still being cared for.

The new services include:

60 new day places – including weekends
transport – which is run by the centres and can be flexible
flexible breaks – with emergency beds as well as planned breaks
outreach workers – supporting people in their own homes
improved facilities – so we meet new inspection standards

To continue improving services for older people with mental health problems we are strengthening our links with Sheffield Care Trust, to provide a single way to access both our services. The new service based at Norbury will involve:

the Community Dementia Support Service for the north, providing a flexible breaks service that meets the needs of both the person with dementia and their carer
Norbury's outreach staff, training alongside the support service,will provide additional support in people’s homes
specialist home care staff, linked with community teams, who will have specialist training in providing care at home
two training services, offering therapeutic support to carers (Caring and Coping with Loss in Dementia), and developing the skills of staff helping to care for people with dementia (Dementia Care Mapping)

Mental Health

Over 25% of older people have symptoms of depression. At particular risk are older people who are carers, those with a long-term illness, and people discharged from hospital. Others have problems like anxiety, phobias or severe depression. We know that getting help as early as possible is important, so we are working closely with health staff to set up

joint services.

About four years ago some of Sheffield’s residential homes began providing specialist long-term residential care. Social services and health now provide specialist day care at these centres, with transport (and for people who can travel on their own). They offer companionship and a place to socialise, with meals and a range of activities such as relaxation, exercise and gardening. People usually have day care after attending a day

hospital – and in the first year only one person was readmitted to hospital.

We will ask Sheffield University to carry out research on these improvements, before we extend this way of working throughout the city.

Other services we will plan to develop include:

an information point for both carers and staff, to the range of services available to support people with dementia and their carers their carers their carers their carers
a 24 hour help line, offering a listening ear to carers
volunteer run coffee shop and carers library
more appropriate services for people from black and ethnic minority communities
further increases in day care, both longer days and at weekends
development of extra care housing over all areas of Sheffield

Who do I need to contact?

You will need to contact Social Services, you can telephone us on

Social Services Access Team: (0114) 273 4908

Or you can complete a form by visiting Getting help from Social Services.

Who will carry out my assessment?

To find out if you are eligible for services, Social Services will carry out an assessment of your needs. For further information you can view the Help for Adults web page.

Will I need to pay for the service?

This will be discussed with you as part of your assessment.

You can view information about Charges for Non Residential Care.

If you have an enquiry or problem about how Social Services assess your finances, you can view contact information for the Revenue Section at Contact for Financial Assessment.

What other information is available?

You can view websites for National Organisations that provide information and advice.

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