CHC funding Success We’ve recently been successful in applying for Continuing Health Care (CHC) funding for two of our clients, individually saving them nearly £2000 per week in care fees. In both cases they had been privately funding their care for several years, paying approximately £86,000 per year. Both clients receive our Monitoring Service, so […]
Finding care in a crisis
Since Christmas, we have been incredibly busy advising and supporting families needing to source care either at home or a residential care home for their elderly relative across Hampshire, West Sussex and Dorset. I’m incredibly proud of the Clarity team and how many care options they have put in place for our clients, including sourcing […]
Care as Christmas Approaches
Christmas is rapidly approaching and at Clarity Care Consulting we’re going to be busy working right up to the last minute, putting care services in place, be that care at home or finding a place in a residential care home, to allow our clients to have the best possible family Christmas. Coming home from hospital. […]
Hampshire Care Awards 2017
Categories :Helping The Elderly , What's in the News
Last night I was lucky enough to be a guest at the HDCP & HCA Care Awards 2017. The room was filled with over 150 inspirational people working in the care industry. Staff from care agencies and residential homes were there to celebrate in style, from chefs, carers, and managers and others picking up lifetime […]
Taking care of the elderly on Bonfire Night
Categories :Helping The Elderly
With Halloween over with we are fast approaching Bonfire Night. With many of us attending local firework displays and bonfire parties with our loved ones, there will be many vulnerable people who will be scared and confused. The weekend as a whole could be very confusing causing heightened anxiety for those who have Dementia, especially […]
Halloween and the elderly
Categories :Helping The Elderly
It’s Halloween this week and although it is fun for you and your children to get dressed up in a Halloween costume and go trick or treating door to door, this can be distressing for the frail and elderly. Remember that an unexpected knock on the door, especially now the clocks have now gone back, […]
A case for dignity in care
Categories :Helping The Elderly , Hospital discharges
Visitors to the Clarity Care Consulting offices regularly ask why we have a suitcase sitting in the corner of our office, often joking if one of the team has just moved out of their home. In many ways they are not as far off the truth as they realise. We are often asked to help […]
Grandad’s Rose
Categories :Helping The Elderly
Just recently I’ve been reminded how powerful nature can be and how plants evoke memories about our elderly relatives. These can be as powerful for some as music can be for evoking memories for others. For many days throughout the summer I found myself checking out the rose in my front garden in Waterlooville. I’m […]
Help to the end – how we helped a client with changing care needs
Categories :Care Home Search , Helping The Elderly
Three years ago, we were contacted by a firm of solicitors who asked us for help with an elderly client of theirs. The gentleman was struggling at home and required home care to enable him to keep his independence and remain living at his home. He didn’t have any surviving family who could help him […]
Dementia Diagnosis
Categories :Helping The Elderly , Uncategorised
Dementia Diagnosis – what does it mean for me and my loved ones? For many people receiving a Dementia diagnosis it can be a terrifying time for all involved, especially for the person receiving the diagnosis. Unfortunately, there is still the ‘stigma’ surrounding this awful disease and many people do not know who turn to. […]
