Health and Wellbeing
Intergrated Care for Older People HSE Community Healthcare East Social Care HSE Older Person Community Support
Services that are supported by the HSE include Day Care, Meal on Wheels, Respite and Home Support Packages. Referrals for all these services can be requested through your local Primary Care Team. The home support services also has an information booklet that is available on Hse.ie. HSE Community Healthcare East Older Persons Community Support are committed to ensuring that the health, welfare, rehabilitation, social and personal care needs of older people is planned, managed and delivered to the optimum of available resources within this HSE region. This is to involve working with older people, their families, carers, voluntary, statutory and private services. Ageing is a normal physiological process and it is not a disease. The guiding principles for the older persons services are: dignity and respect, right to decide, you will be listened to and heard; give adequate, timely and appropriate information; services are person-centred and accessible; the independence and autonomy of each older person is promoted and the right to live in their own home. The will and preferences, beliefs and value system of each older person are of utmost importance in all the interactions with the HSE. The focus of the service shall always be on the individual older person. Access to health and social care services shall be based on clinical assessed need and provided in the most appropriate place for the older person consisting of home support, day care, respite and extended care when required with the consent of the person. These services are flexible, planned, coordinated, accessible, equitable, responsive and appropriate to the individual needs: right service in the right
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