Our comprehensive service is personalised to the needs of the individual.

General

  • Identification of areas in which support is needed
  • Support to find and move to more independent or more suitable accommodation

  • Help to manage independently at home including development of living skills
  • Support to build confidence
  • Assistance to gain access to other services
  • Support to maintain a tenancy, including understanding rights and responsibilities
  • Provision of information on community facilities and services
  • Ensuring that all appropriate services are received from other agencies
  • Help with filling in forms and answering correspondence
  • General help, emotional support and someone to talk to
  • Economic Wellbeing

  • Assistance to maximise income and claim all appropriate benefits
  • Help to maintain a tenancy or mortgage
  • Budgeting and assistance to manage money
  • Help to set up home including assistance to obtain furniture and apply for grants
  • Ensuring connection to utilities are sustained
  • Help to understand and manage bills
  • Assistance with managing or resolving debt
  • Enjoying & Achieving

  • Help to enjoy life and avoid isolation
  • Support to attend social activities
  • Introduction to groups, clubs and community facilities
  • Support to access and participate in training or education
  • Enabling and encouraging good neighbourly relations
  • Provision of information on community facilities and services
  • Support to secure paid or voluntary employment
  • Be Healthy

  • Help to develop living skills such as cooking, cleaning and shopping
  • Support to better manage physical health
  • Enabling access to doctors, healthcare workers, social workers or community organisations
  • Enabling appropriate community equipment and alarms to be installed
  • Ensuring that all appropriate services are received from other agencies
  • Help to prevent falls
  • Prompting, advice and encouragement to carry out personal care tasks
  • Enabling access to shopping or homecare services
  • Support to better manage mental health
  • Advice on eating healthily, general health and well-being
  • Stay Safe

  • Advice on keeping accommodation safe and secure
  • Help to manage in independent accommodation
  • Support to build confidence
  • Assistance to access other appropriate services
  • Help to understand and fulfil tenancy or mortgage conditions
  • Help to enable organising repairs or improvements to the home or contents
  • Ensuring connection to utilities are maintained
  • Enabling use of equipment in the home
  • Help to find and move to more independent or more suitable accommodation
  • Enabling appropriate community equipment and emergency alarms to be installed
  • Making a Positive Contribution

  • Enabling and encouraging good neighbourly relations
  • Enabling involvement with community organisations
  • Support to become more involved in the community
  • Support to be able to make choices about how you live your life

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    folks@home Ltd, Bank Chambers, 1 Vaughan Parade, Torquay TQ2 5EG. Company registered in England no. 6268422.
    Tel: 01803 21 27 25   Fax: 01803 21 27 15   E-mail: mail@folksathome.com