Domiciliary Care Lay Monitoring Pilot Project Report
A growing number of older people, people with disabilities and long term conditions are supported to live at home and receive help with personal care and day to day living tasks. This kind of support is usually called domiciliary care or home care. Numbers are set to continue increasing as the numbers of older people rise and national and local policy has set out a clear vision that people should be supported to live as independently as possible in their own homes for as long as possible, with a reduction in admissions to hospital and to care homes.
Healthwatch Northamptonshire has been working in partnership with Northamptonshire County Council on a pilot project to monitor the quality of home (domiciliary) care services. Phase 1 of the pilot involved Healthwatch Volunteers hearing from users and informal carers/family members, who use two local care agencies to find out their views of the services they received.
