Transcript MHA Care Group

ONE SIZE DOESN’T FIT ALL LEADING EDGE DEVELOPMENTS
JANE BARKER
MHA CARE GROUP
0113 271 5805/07814 717560
With over sixty years experience of providing care,
accommodation and support for older people.
Operate in England, Wales and Scotland.
The Group comprises Methodist Homes Housing Association
and Methodist Homes for the Aged.
Our Strategic Plan seeks to provide a wide range of services
in a variety of settings:Care Homes
Housing
Resource Centres
At home/in the community
A national reputation for our expertise in dementia care.
Consider MHA’s latest
developments in dementia
care housing:- specialist
- integrated
- ‘segregated’
- mixed tenures
- extra services
What has worked well?
What could have worked better?
Issues to be considered in developing dementia care housing.
Portland
Stneeds,
Helens
People living with dementia
have House,
specific care
and MHA ensures individuals have a quality of life
underpinned by privacy, dignity, independence,
Specialist
Scheme:
choice, care
and loving
support. In addition we:
Purpose
built, single
storey well being
• Focus●on
the individual
and promote
● Smart Technology
• Give person-centred
care
● 24
hour care
and support for 8 older people
• Ensure
effective
communication
• Provide good quality and caring staff
Funding:
• Ensure a safe and homely living environment
● Capital – Social Housing Grant
Our care
research
and ourS.P.,
long
● practice
Revenueis–based
Rents,on
Service
Charges,
term experience.
Block Care Contract
Learning Points:
● Well resourced
● Alternative to residential care
● Small scale and homely
● Improvements in well-being and independence
● Costs
(See DoH’s “That’s my Home”).
Understanding the individual
allows MHA
to
Moor
Allerton,
develop a personalised Care Plan. We
Leeds
support and care for older people by:
• Enabling a preferred way of life to be
Integrated and ‘segregated’
continued
schemes:
• Responding to and
supporting
● Purpose
built
individual needs,● including
unusual
70 apartments
–
routines and behaviour
45 ‘traditional’
• Supporting residents
in daily living
5 intermediate
care (mental health)
activities such as 20
preparing
food,
etc
dementia
care
● Dementia
• Maintaining personality
and Resource
identity byCentre
● Extensive
assistive technology
continuing interests
and skills
● Specialist design features and
sensory garden
Funding:
● Capital – SHG and fundraising
appeal
● Revenue – Rents,
Service Charges,
S.P. and Block Care Contract
Learning Points:
● High level care needs being met
● Extensive community facilities
● Local community involvement
● Enabled LCC to close a home
● Segregation vs. integration
Swindon
Specialist Scheme:
● Purpose built
● 14 apartments for couples where one is living
with dementia
Funding:
● Capital – MHA loans
● Revenue – Sales receipts, service charge
and care fee
Learning Points:
● Revenue Costs
● Selling and marketing concept
● Person ‘left behind’
● Benefit of adjoining home
● Enables couples to stay
together
● Enables people to continue to
be homeowners
Bridge Court, Wolverhampton
Integrated Scheme:
● Purpose built
● 40 apartments including dementia, mental health
and learning disability.
Funding:
● Capital – SHG
● Revenue – Rents, Service Charge and
Block Care Contract
Learning Points:
● Well resourced alternative to residential care
● Flexible Care Contract
● Social Club
● Economies of scale – Home and Resource Centre
● Integration leading to co-support
Clayton, Bradford
Integrated Scheme:
● Purpose built
● 46 apartments and Resource Centre
● Mixed Tenure – Sale, Shared Ownership
and Rent
● Extensive assistive technology
● Outreach service
● Centre of Dementia Excellence
Funding:
● Capital – DoH Grant, Flat Sales and Loans
● Revenue – Rents, Service Charges and
Block Care Contract.
Learning Points:
● High staffing levels
● Support to other schemes in the city
● Flexible Care Contract
● Early marketing of apartments
Considerations In Developing
Housing with Care:
● Selling the concept
● Marketing the flats
● Getting the price right
● Model of Care –
Flexible Contract
Person Centred approach
Specialist training
Adequate care hours
● CSCI
● Specifying the assistive technology and
funding it
● Making the Catering operation work
● Take risks