{"id":2807,"date":"2022-03-16T12:21:31","date_gmt":"2022-03-16T12:21:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/integratedcarejournal.com\/?p=2807"},"modified":"2022-05-09T13:05:15","modified_gmt":"2022-05-09T13:05:15","slug":"practical-steps-crisis-domiciliary-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/integratedcarejournal.com\/practical-steps-crisis-domiciliary-care\/","title":{"rendered":"Taking practical steps to address a growing crisis in domiciliary care"},"content":{"rendered":"

The solution to the domiciliary care crisis is to enable the sector to do more, not to simply ask more of it. The distinction is important, as the development of integrated care provides opportunities to enhance system efficiency like never before. And yet, the scope of what could be asked of, and performed by, trained, supported, committed community-based practitioners is yet to be fully explored or achieved.<\/p>\n

All the while, the expectations of those receiving care, and certainly those considering a future career in health and care, are greater than they have ever been.<\/p>\n

To meet these ever-rising expectations, system leaders are likely to find fertile ground in looking to better embrace the assets that already exist within the system. This includes domiciliary care workers, whose skillset could be expanded and developed, a move that could encourage others into the system. This can happen by re-positioning the expectation, skills and rewards to produce and provide, for example, enhanced wellbeing services (EWS) provided by enhanced wellbeing practitioners (EWP), of which domiciliary care is a major component among a portfolio of beneficial interventions and service provision.<\/p>\n

The 6Cs of care are prevalent within our frontline domiciliary partner staff; the opportunity is there to optimise their engagement and knowledge of patients and clients to:<\/p>\n