Reablement Care
Reablement is an approach that, irrespective of diagnosis, aims to assist people to continue to live as they wish. It seeks to enable the individual to do ordinary activities like cooking meals, washing, dressing, moving about the home and going out. Our reablement approach supports service users to do things for themselves. It is a 'doing with' model, in contrast to traditional homecare which tends to be a 'doing for' model.
Our reablement approach usually runs for a maximum of six weeks and has been successfully used to also support discharges from hospital, prevent readmission and enable individuals to remain living at home.​
Our reablement care and assessment officer will undertake a comprehensive reablement assessment with your involvement which forms the content of your support plan, which our homecare support workers will work from to ensure you receive the support required to achieve your recovery goals.
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Key features of our reablement approach
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Focuses on a person’s strengths to promote and maximise independence and wellbeing.
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Rebuilds confidence after a spell of illness, deterioration in health, an injury, a hospital admission or an acquired disability.
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Supports people to regain or retain skills to enable them to manage with minimal or no support.
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Short-term and intensive; typically provided for up to six weeks.
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A focus on restoring independent functioning, rather than resolving healthcare issues.
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Aims to prevent re-admission to hospital or premature move to a care home.
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About setting and working toward meaningful outcome focused goals.
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Aims to reconnect people with their communities to reduce social isolation.
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Can help to reduce the amount of care the person needs from carers and family.