| Single Assessment Process - training materials housing The following listing is subject to ongoing review and revision... Care Asset Management Ltd A better way to fund care A public information DVD on the issues of care fee funding [CareAware] (2008) CareAware is a non-profit making public information and advisory service specialising in issues relating to funding long term care for older people. Its objectives are to improve public understanding and knowledge about the care system, to reinforce the rights and choices of the individual and to assist the public and professionals on the complex issues associated with care provision. The aim of this DVD is to be a means of education, training and marketing within an organisation, and can be used in a variety of settings. Copies are available for a modest charge and personalised versions of the DVD can be produced, both on the DVD and on the wallet which contains it. ITN were commissioned to produce the DVD with an introduction by television newsreader, Martyn Lewis. Contact Details: CareAware Helpline PO Box 8 Manchester M30 9NY Tel: 08705 134925 | Fax: E–mail: enquiries@careaware.co.uk | Web links: http://www.careaware.co.uk | Target group: LAs | Type / Format: DVD; training packs/guides Availability / Price: £2.99 per DVD; complimentary copy may be available. | ISBN/ISSN: Notes: Counsel and Care supported by housing21 Cutting Corners or Cutting Costs? Assessing the value of early intervention in older people's services A one day conference held on 16 November 2006, at the Barbican Centre, London. A major priority for ministers in the Department of Health and the new Department for Communities and Local Government is to encourage social services, housing departments and the NHS to develop more early intervention services. The rationale is to enhance older people's quality of life and save on future costs of care. This Counsel and Care conference seeks to provide a forum for delegates to debate the future of early intervention services and to learn from best practice. Keynote speech: Ivan Lewis MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Department of Health, "The future of early intervention services for older people". Contact Details: Marijana Sevic, Westminster Advisers Ltd., 48 Westminster Palace Gardens, 1-7 Artillery Row, London SW1P 1RR. Tel: +44 (0)20 7227 1643 | Fax: +44 (0)20 7222 9501 E–mail: marijana@westminsteradvisers.co.uk | Web links: http://www.counselandcare.org.uk | Target group: LAs | Type / Format: conference Availability / Price: Early booking rate: £225 and after 8 September: £255 | ISBN/ISSN: Notes: Elderly Accommodation Counsel Housing options for older people (HOOP): ... to move or not to move? that is the question ... a self-assessment form for people wondering whether or not to move home and seeking information on options The HOOP tool has been produced by Elderly Accommodation Counsel (EAC) and the School for Policy Studies, University of the West of England (UWE), with support from the Housing Corporation Innovation and Good Practice Programme. The questionnaire is designed to help people who are trying to decide whether or not to move home in later life. It invites the individual to look at nine different aspects of his or her home, one by one, to help clarify which things re right and where there are problems. The purpose is to think through factors about moving or staying put, and to find out more about the options that are relevant to an older person's situation. Contact Details: Tel: +44 (0)20 7820 1343 | Fax: E–mail: | Web links: http://www.housingcare.org | Target group: Older people | Type / Format: assessment tool Availability / Price: | ISBN/ISSN: Notes: ERoSH - the Emerging Role of Sheltered Housing project Action on sheltered housing - a checklist for social services - sheltered housing has changed (2003) 4 pages. This leaflet aims to encourage social service staff to consider sheltered housing for those more frail and older than accommodated in the past for this type of housing. Contact Details: PO Box 2616 Chippenham Wiltshire SN15 1WZ Tel: +44 (0)1905 21112 | Fax: +44 (0)1249 654249 E–mail: info@shelteredhousing.org | Web links: http://www.shelteredhousing.org | Target group: LA | Type / Format: guidance; publicity materials Availability / Price: | ISBN/ISSN: Notes: Leaflet is one of four in a series produced by ERoSH, a consortium of sheltered housing providers. ERoSH - the Emerging Role of Sheltered Housing project General enquirers, older people, their friends and relatives - 8 key questions and answers about sheltered housing - sheltered housing has changed (2003) 4 pages. This leaflet aims to encourage sheltered housing to be considered more often for those more frail and older than accommodated in the past for this type of housing. Contact Details: PO Box 2616 Chippenham Wiltshire SN15 1WZ Tel: +44 (0)1905 21112 | Fax: +44 (0)1249 654249 E–mail: info@shelteredhousing.org | Web links: http://www.shelteredhousing.org | Target group: general public | Type / Format: guidance; publicity materials Availability / Price: | ISBN/ISSN: Notes: Leaflet is one of four in a series produced by ERoSH, a consortium of sheltered housing providers. ERoSH - the Emerging Role of Sheltered Housing project Information and checklist for hospital and primary care staff - sheltered housing has changed (2003) 4 pages. This leaflet aims to encourage health staff to consider sheltered housing for those more frail and older than accommodated in the past for this type of housing. Contact Details: PO Box 2616 Chippenham Wiltshire SN15 1WZ Tel: +44 (0)1905 21112 | Fax: +44 (0)1249 654249 E–mail: info@shelteredhousing.org | Web links: http://www.shelteredhousing.org | Target group: HA | Type / Format: guidance; publicity materials Availability / Price: | ISBN/ISSN: Notes: Leaflet is one of four in a series produced by ERoSH, a consortium of sheltered housing providers. ERoSH - the Essential Role of Sheltered Housing Sheltered housing's contribution to health and social care (2008) This DVD emphasises the benefits of partnership working. It demonstrates a range of health and social care-related activities that do or should take place in sheltered housing including: exercise; falls prevention; keeping active; helping access to other services; healthy eating; screening; and social activities. ERoSH produces checklists for health and social care professionals, and the good practice examples in the DVD pick out just a few themes. The DVD is in two parts, one aimed primarily at health care professionals, and the other primarily at social care professionals. The aim is that it should be shown at team meetings and training courses.. It is also viewable on the ERoSH website. Contact Details: PO Box 2616 Chippenham Wiltshire SN15 1WZ Tel: +44 (0)1249 654249 | Fax: +44 (0)1249 654249 E–mail: info@shelteredhousing.org | Web links: http://www.shelteredhousing.org | http://icn.csip.org.uk/housing/ Target group: health care / social care professionals | Type / Format: dvd Availability / Price: | ISBN/ISSN: Notes: ERoSH was formerly known as the Emerging Role of Sheltered Housing project. The DVD was produced by 4 Reel Films for ERoSH. Other contact credited on DVD cover: CSIP Housing Learning and Improvement Network For further good practice examples, contact the Housing LIN website (Web Link 2). Foundations - National Co-ordinating Body for Home Improvement Agencies Delivering adaptations HIAs delivering government strategies (2003) 15 page booklet which provides evidence that the service of delivering adaptations managed by Home Improvement Agencies (HIAs) can help local authorities and health services address a number of their targets in a cost-effective, client focused way. Contact Details: Bleaklow House, Howard Town Mill, Glossop, Derbyshire SK13 8HT Tel: +44 (0)1457 891909 | Fax: +44 (0)1457 869361 E–mail: foundations@cel.co.uk | Web links: http://www.foundations.uk.com | Target group: LAs | Type / Format: book Availability / Price: FOC | ISBN/ISSN: Notes: Foundations - National Co-ordinating Body for Home Improvement Agencies Delivering home improvement agency services to visually impaired people Good practice guide (2004) This guide is aimed primarily at people who work in Home Improvement Agencies (HIAs) but it provides a useful knowledge base, checklists and guide for all who work with those who have a visual impairment. The guide draws on the experiences of six HIAs involved in a good practice research project, jointly undertaken by Foundations and the Centre for Housing Policy at the University of York, the latter commissioned by Thomas Pocklington Trust. 51 pages. Contact Details: Bleaklow House, Howard Town Mill, Glossop, Derbyshire SK13 8HT Tel: +44 (0)1457 891909 | Fax: +44 (0)1457 869361 E–mail: foundations@cel.co.uk | Web links: http://www.foundations.uk.com | Target group: LAs | Type / Format: book Availability / Price: £9.95 | ISBN/ISSN: 0954545702 Notes: Foundations - National Co-ordinating Body for Home Improvement Agencies Developing services for black and minority ethnic communities Good practice guide (2004) The purpose of this guide is to provide a useful handbook for Home Imrprovement Agencies (HIAs) and other similar service providers. The focus of the guide is equality of service provision for black and minority ethnic individuals. It provides information on how to ensure that services are equally accessible to all community members. 46 pages. Contact Details: Bleaklow House, Howard Town Mill, Glossop, Derbyshire SK13 8HT Tel: +44 (0)1457 891909 | Fax: +44 (0)1457 869361 E–mail: foundations@cel.co.uk | Web links: http://www.foundations.uk.com | Target group: LAs | Type / Format: book Availability / Price: £9.95 | ISBN/ISSN: 0954545710 Notes: Foundations - National Co-ordinating Body for Home Improvement Agencies Energy efficiency and fuel poverty HIAs delivering government strategies (2003) 15 page booklet which provides evidence that this service managed by Home Improvement Agencies (HIAs) can help local authorities and health services address a number of their targets in a cost-effective, client focused way. Contact Details: Bleaklow House, Howard Town Mill, Glossop, Derbyshire SK13 8HT Tel: +44 (0)1457 891909 | Fax: +44 (0)1457 869361 E–mail: foundations@cel.co.uk | Web links: http://www.foundations.uk.com | Target group: LAs | Type / Format: book Availability / Price: FOC | ISBN/ISSN: Notes: Foundations - National Co-ordinating Body for Home Improvement Agencies Falls and accident prevention HIAs delivering government strategies (2003) 15 page booklet which provides evidence that this service managed by Home Improvement Agencies (HIAs) can help local authorities and health services address a number of their targets in a cost-effective, client focused way. Contact Details: Bleaklow House, Howard Town Mill, Glossop, Derbyshire SK13 8HT Tel: +44 (0)1457 891909 | Fax: +44 (0)1457 869361 E–mail: foundations@cel.co.uk | Web links: http://www.foundations.uk.com | Target group: LAs | Type / Format: book Availability / Price: FOC | ISBN/ISSN: Notes: Foundations - National Co-ordinating Body for Home Improvement Agencies Handyperson services HIAs delivering government strategies (2003) 15 page booklet which provides evidence that Handyperson Services managed by Home Improvement Agencies (HIAs) can help local authorities and health services address a number of their targets in a cost-effective, client focused way. These include falls prevention, hospital discharge, energy efficiency and fitting minor adaptations. Contact Details: Bleaklow House, Howard Town Mill, Glossop, Derbyshire SK13 8HT Tel: +44 (0)1457 891909 | Fax: +44 (0)1457 869361 E–mail: foundations@cel.co.uk | Web links: http://www.foundations.uk.com | Target group: LAs | Type / Format: book Availability / Price: FOC | ISBN/ISSN: Notes: Foundations - National Co-ordinating Body for Home Improvement Agencies Home Improvement Agencies - delivering government strategies across health, housing and social care (Information card 2) (2004) HIAs help people to remainin their own home, safe, secure and independent. This card explains how this helps deliver government strategies such as hospital discharge, falls prevention and energy efficiency and fitting minor adaptations. Contact Details: Bleaklow House, Howard Town Mill, Glossop, Derbyshire SK13 8HT Tel: +44 (0)1457 891909 | Fax: +44 (0)1457 869361 E–mail: foundations@cel.co.uk | Web links: http://www.foundations.uk.com | Target group: LAs | Type / Format: journal Availability / Price: FOC | ISBN/ISSN: Notes: Foundations - National Co-ordinating Body for Home Improvement Agencies Home Improvement Agencies - the key to independent living (Information card 1) (2004) This card describes the function and role of Home Improvement Agencies (HIAs), which homeowners and private sector tenants who are older, disabled or on low income to repair, maintain or adapt their homes. Contact Details: Bleaklow House, Howard Town Mill, Glossop, Derbyshire SK13 8HT Tel: +44 (0)1457 891909 | Fax: +44 (0)1457 869361 E–mail: foundations@cel.co.uk | Web links: http://www.foundations.uk.com | Target group: LAs | Type / Format: journal Availability / Price: FOC | ISBN/ISSN: Notes: Foundations - National Co-ordinating Body for Home Improvement Agencies Hospital discharge HIAs delivering government strategies (2003) 15 page booklet which provides evidence that this service managed by Home Improvement Agencies (HIAs) can help local authorities and health services address a number of their targets in a cost-effective, client focused way. Contact Details: Bleaklow House, Howard Town Mill, Glossop, Derbyshire SK13 8HT Tel: +44 (0)1457 891909 | Fax: +44 (0)1457 869361 E–mail: foundations@cel.co.uk | Web links: http://www.foundations.uk.com | Target group: LAs | Type / Format: book Availability / Price: FOC | ISBN/ISSN: Notes: Help the Aged Housing choice for older people a discussion paper [author: Joe Oldman] (2006) This discussion paper (61 pp) gives an overview of some of the current policy issues impacting on older people's housing in England: the diversity of housing needs, and housing options. Part 3, Finding solutions, first examines the extent to which strategic planning and policies such as Supporting People (SP) and the Decent Homes Standard deliver results. The role of co-ordinating housing advice and information is considered in the context, for example, of HOPDEV (the Housing and Older People Development Group), Link-Age, the Single Assessment Process (SAP), Home Improvement Agencies ((HIA), and Housing Options for Older People (HOOP). Contact Details: Joe Oldman, Help the Aged, 207-221 Pentonville Road, London N1 9UZ. E-mail: info@helptheaged.org.uk http://www.helptheaged.org.uk Tel: +44 (0)20 7278 1114 | Fax: +44 (0)20 7278 1116 E–mail: joe.oldman@helptheaged.org.uk | info@helptheaged.org.uk Web links: http://www.helptheaged.org.uk | Target group: housing; general public | Type / Format: book; policy Availability / Price: £10.00 Also available on website. | ISBN/ISSN: 1845980069 Notes: Housing Learning & Improvement Network (LIN), Change Agent Team Single assessment process and the housing sector a discussion paper [author: Sue Garwood] (13 April 2005) Sue Garwood, an extra care specialist, has produced this discussion paper (19 pp) for Housing LIN. Her paper explores the issues, starting from the Single Assessment Process Guidance and paperwork, and assessing these from the perspective of their reference to, and inclusion of, the housing sector. Issues are then covered from a particular housing sector perspective, also assistive technology. View discussion document | View Housing LIN newsletter Contact Details: Housing LIN, c/o EAC, 3rd Floor, 99 Albert Embankment, London SE1 7TP. Tel: 020 7820 1882 | Fax: E–mail: housinglin@eac.org.uk | Web links: http://icn.csip.org.uk/housing/ | Target group: housing | Type / Format: book Availability / Price: | ISBN/ISSN: Notes: The newsletter, Housing with Care Matters: E-news from the Housing Learning & Improvement Network, Change Agent Team, Spring 2005, refers to this report, and that comments or examples are invited by 27 May 2005, to be sent to housinglin@eac.org.uk NEA (National Energy Action) Prevention into action - SAP affordable warmth toolkit [introduction title]: Reducing cold-related health and social care risks through the Single Assessment Process (SAP) - an affordable warmth and SAP toolkit (March 2008) This resource is an awareness toolkit for responding to cold-related health and social care risks through the Single Assessment Process and draws on findings from NEA's 'Prevention is better than cure' research (see entry for this item ). SAP provides an ideal mechanism for identifying householders at risk of, or living in fuel poverty and promoting referral into available affordable warmth services. The toolkit contains a range of presentations for local use, appropriate guidance on key issues and practical resources for frontline practitioners. The toolkit was based on findings of national scoping study undertaken in 2006/07 funded by DEFRA (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs). Contact Details: Diane Bland, Project Co-ordinator, NEA Area Office, PO BOX 183, NORTHALLERTON DL7 7AN Tel: 01609 883 918 (NEA Area Office) 01609 883 155 (DB home) | Fax: E–mail: diane.bland@nea.org.uk | Web links: http://www.nea.org.uk/Publications/Publications | Target group: SAP managers and trainers | Type / Format: toolkit Availability / Price: | ISBN/ISSN: Notes: NEA (National Energy Action) Prevention is better than cure: a guide to assessing the risks to vulnerable people living in cold, damp homes through the Single Assessment Process and recommendations for action an NEA guidance note for those involved in the design, management or delivery of the Single Assessment Process (April 2007) NEA has produced a guide to assessing the risks to vulnerable people living in cold, damp homes through the Single Assessment Process and recommendations for action, ‘Prevention is Better than Cure’. This guidance note (40 pp) is aimed at those involved in the design, management or delivery of the Single Assessment Process. It includes: findings of a scoping study arising from responses to a questionnaire to health and social care agencies involved with SAP; and examples of good practice in Herefordshire, South West Peninsula, Darlington, Birmingham, North Yorkshire, Calderdale, Waltham Forest, and Greenwich. Key recommendations are made for the different forms of assessment. In particular, questions on affordable warmth and information of referral pathways should always be included at Contact Assessment. SAP leads and SAP managers should also be trained or have an awareness of of key affordable warmth issues when developing and/or delivering training for SAP assessors. Appendices include: the scoping study questionnaire; the Herefordshire Signposting Assessment; an example of a cold weather checklist; and an example of training resource on raising awareness around fuel poverty and affordable warmth. NEA was funded by DEFRA (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs).to undertake the project leading to this publication, which investigated the extent to which health and social care agencies already included considerations of the health impacts on those living in cold damp homes, particularly those with long term conditions, within the single assessment process. Contact Details: Diane Bland, Project Co-ordinator, NEA Area Office, PO Box 113, Northallerton DL7 7AN. Tel: 01609 883 918 (NEA Area Office) 07855 863312 (DB mobile) | Fax: E–mail: diane.bland@nea.org.uk | Web links: http://www.nea.org.uk/downloads/publications/H1442_Single_Assessment_Process_Booklet.pdf | Target group: | Type / Format: briefing; guidance Availability / Price: Download | ISBN/ISSN: Notes: Large print version available on request . NEA (National Energy Action) Reducing the health impacts of cold, damp homes on those living with long-term conditions a briefing note for community matrons (March 2007) This briefing (6 pp) outlines ways in which Community Matrons can improve the case management and care of those living in cold, damp housing. It focuses on findings drawn from NEA’s Health Champions’ Programme and the guidance note ‘Prevention is better than cure', which includes recommendations on the development of the Single Assessment Process (SAP) to meet the needs of those living in cold, damp housing. The briefing provides a useful introduction to the impact of cold homes on health, provides guidance on policy and practice development as well as available sources of specialist information, advice and assistance. Case studies from County Durham and South West Essex PCT illustrate how community matrons include issues or questions on affordable warmth in SAP and assessment documentation. Contact Details: Diane Bland, Project Co-ordinator, NEA Area Office, PO BOX 183, NORTHALLERTON DL7 7AN Tel: 01609 883 918 (NEA Area Office) 01609 883 155 (DB home) | Fax: E–mail: diane.bland@nea.org.uk | Web links: http://www.nea.org.uk/downloads/publications/Community_Matrons_Briefing_Note.pdf | Target group: Community matrons | Type / Format: briefing Availability / Price: | ISBN/ISSN: Notes: Ricability, Calling for help a guide to community alarms Ricability October 2003 More than one and a half million older and disabled people in the UK use community alarms. This guide explains how alarms work and the types of organisations that run alarm schemes. The results of tests on 13 different models of alarm are summarised; and a checklist suggests what to look out for when choosing one. Contact details of useful organisations are also given. This guide is also available in large print, Braille, on tape or from Ricability's website. 24 pp Contact Details: Chris Lofthouse, 30 Angel Gate, City Road, London EC1V 2PT. Tel: +44 (0)20 7427 2460 | Fax: E–mail: | Web links: http://www.ricability.org.uk | Target group: individual | Type / Format: book Availability / Price: free of charge | ISBN/ISSN: 0900621621 Notes: |