Complex Care Services At Home
Even though we provide support within a home setting, we are inspected by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) in the same way as hospitals. This means we are able to deliver high quality, intensive support packages to individuals with particularly complex needs.
The reason we have been so successful in supporting individuals with complex needs in a home of their own is because we look at the person, and not just the clinical diagnosis. We don’t believe in assigning labels to individuals as labels can change the way people are viewed by others. However, a primary clinical diagnosis can be a helpful starting point if you are looking for a supported living service for a family member or looking to make a referral. Below is a link for a list of some of the conditions we can support but we are also happy to receive enquiries for other conditions.
Conditions we support
Our approach to providing community-based care and support is what has led to our success in supporting individuals with complex needs in a home of their own. By focussing on the individual rather than just the clinical diagnosis, we ensure that each person receives community care solutions tailored to their unique situation.
This list details some of the main conditions we can support, but we are also open to enquiries for conditions not listed below.
In our commitment to community-based rehabilitation, we can also support individuals with a range of secondary chronic conditions such as epilepsy, Asthma, diet-controlled diabetes and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD). Our community care options extend to supporting individuals with physical disabilities and those with behaviours perceived to be challenging, ensuring a comprehensive approach to care.
Acquired Brain Injury
Brain Injury caused by events after birth. Typical examples include: trauma, for example from a road traffic accident, fall or assault; anoxic brain injury, due to lack of oxygen to the brain caused by, for example, cardiac arrest, near drowning or carbon monoxide poisoning; hypoglycaemic brain injury; subarachnoid haemorrhage, brain tumour; encephalitis. Our community-based care and community-based rehabilitation are specifically designed to support individuals recovering from these types of brain injuries.
Attachment Disorder
An attachment disorder describes conditions that affect mood, behaviour and social relationships. It generally arises from difficulties in forming secure attachments to primary care-giving figures in early childhood and difficulties may also persist into adulthood. Attachment disorder is one of the conditions we support through our community-based care.
Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD)
Autism is a condition and affects people in different ways. It can bring strengths and some challenges. Some difficulties include:
- Social communication and social interaction
- Repetitive and restrictive behaviours
- Sensory differences
- Extreme anxiety
- Shutdowns and meltdowns
Our community care service provides specialised support for individuals on the Autistic spectrum, with a focus on tailored support and rehabilitation.
Bipolar Disorder
Formerly called manic depression, bipolar disorder is a mental health condition that mainly affects your mood. If you have bipolar disorder, you are likely to have times where you experience manic of hypomanic episodes, which means experiencing emotional highs and depressive episodes, which means experiencing emotional lows, sadness and hopelessness. Some people can also experience psychotic symptoms with this condition.
Complex Needs
Complex Needs is not a diagnosis but is often a term used to describe a person who has multiple issues in their life that affect their physical, mental, emotional or social wellbeing. Our community-based care and community forensic services are well-suited to address the diverse needs of individuals with complex needs.
Developmental Disorder
Developmental disorders, also called neurodevelopmental disorder or childhood disorders, is an umbrella term for a group of conditions that are neurologically based and can affect specific skills development, such as perception memory, attention, language, problem-solving or social interaction.
Learning Disability
A learning disability affects the way a person learns new things throughout their life. A learning disability is different for everyone, no two people are the same. A person might have difficulties understanding complicated information, learning some skills or looking after themselves or living alone. Our community care options are designed to provide lifelong support and development opportunities for individuals with learning disabilities.
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) is a mental health condition where a person has obsessive thoughts and compulsive behaviours. A person may have obsessions – an unwanted and unpleasant thought, image or urge that repeatedly enters your mind, causing feelings of anxiety, disgust or unease. A compulsion is a repetitive behaviour or mental act that you feel you need to do to temporarily relieve the unpleasant feelings brought on by the obsessive thought.
Personality Disorder/Complex Emotional Needs
Personality disorder refers to a group of mental disorders where a person’s ‘personality characteristics’ are outside the norm for the society in which they live (problematic). People’s symptoms or difficulties usually emerge in adolescence or early adulthood and are inflexible, and relative stable (persistent). This results in distress or impaired functioning in a number of different personal and social contexts, such as intimate family and social relationships, employment and possible offending behaviour (pervasive). Amongst interested parties, the diagnosis of ‘personality disorder’ is highly contested as is the label and its potential to stigmatise the people it seeks to describe. Currently the condition is often referred to as Personality Difficulties or Complex Emotional Needs (CEN), and in doing so, acknowledges complex, experiential developmental factors of trauma, adversity, attachment and symptomology of adaptive responses.
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and Complex PTSD
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder is an anxiety disorder that can develop after exposure to psychologically distressing, frightening traumatic events. Symptoms can develop immediately or many months or years later, and can include nightmares, flashbacks, chronic irritability or anxiety and avoidance of triggers which remind of the event. People who repeatedly experience events such as severe neglect, abuse or violence may be diagnosed with Complex PTSD (CPTSD) and if trauma is experienced in early life this can severely affect neurological development, emotional dysregulation, self-worth and relationship difficulties.
Psychosis
Psychosis (also called a psychotic experience, psychotic symptoms or psychotic episode) is when you perceive or interpret reality in a very different way from people around you. Common symptoms can include hallucinations, delusions, disorganised thinking and speech. You might experience it once, have short episodes throughout your life, or live with it most of the time.
Schizophrenia
Schizophrenia is a severe long-term mental health condition. It causes a range of different psychological symptoms. Although the positive symptoms are often the most ‘dramatic’ and at least initially the most distressing, the negative ones tend to cause the most problems, as they tend to be longer-lasting. Positive symptoms can be understood as experiences or behaviours that the condition ‘adds’ to your life, like hearing or seeing things that others don’t, or having a belief that something is real or true when it isn’t. Negative symptoms can be understood as experiences or behaviours that the condition ‘takes away’ from your life, like finding things less interesting or enjoyable, moving your body less or having less motivation.