1.1 Explain The Importance Of Caring For Health And Residential Care

Children’s trust is an organisation that helps individuals with brain injuries, which cause them to have life-lasting injuries and disorders. They offer residential and community care for anyone with a brain injury. The Children's Trust is the UK's leading charity for children with brain injuries. They work with children and young people from the UK from their various service centres. The children’s trust’s vision is for all children with brain injury to have the opportunity to live the best life possible and to be able to act as if they are fine and nothing is wrong with them.

Residential care-

Residential care is a supervised home environment where individuals go to live if they are unable to live on their own due to illnesses and problems.
People can go and live at a residential care home for various reasons; it could be because of illnesses or disorders as well as not being able to do things for themselves, which means they have to stay in a care home to get more supervised help. You can be referred by your local health and social care trust, which would normally be a hospital. The hospital may say you are not deemed fit to live on your own due to the extent of your injuries, which would mean you would have the choice of going into a nursing home or a residential home. The NHS fund residential care homes, you may need to pay for some things as well and the council fund a bit of the residential home. There are some barriers for residential homes such as religious and culture. For some people it may be the fact they don’t an to go into a residential home as they feel their family should give back to them and look after them which may cause distress and issues amongst individuals. Finance is a major barrier, as many people may not have enough money to fund some of their stay at the residential care home, which would mean either the council paying it, which, is probably not an option, or staying with family until you have enough money to
Domiciliary Care is care in your own home. A carer visits you in your own and helps you with daily activities and chores that you cannot safely do on your own such as: getting dressed, washing dishes, cleaning and making food. The Care Quality Commission in England, the Commission for Social Services for Wales and the Social Care and Social Work Improvement in Scotland manage domiciliary care providers. You can be referred to domiciliary care by being assessed in a hospital, which means that the professional assessing you will decide whether you are fit to stay alone or if you need domiciliary care to help you with your life. Many people fund domiciliary care such as the council, the NHS and yourself. The council and NHS will only pay a small part of the cost for domiciliary care, you, yourself will have to pay the remaining cost as it can’t be funded totally by the council; as they have to fund other ventures and services. There are many barriers for domiciliary care such as religious and cultural barriers. For example some people may not want their family member to receive a wide range of domiciliary care as they may have religious practices which say they should look after the individual themselves rather than letting a stranger help. Finance is a major barrier, as many people may not have enough money to fund the rest of their domiciliary