Family, main carers and friends

Family, main carers and friends 2018-05-08T11:33:55+00:00

Project Description

We understand the challenges encountered by families, friends and main carers, trying to provide much needed care and support to a loved one and vulnerable adult. We have invaluable insight into the ongoing stresses of providing ongoing consistent support, due to the conflicting demands of everyday life. Juggling the challenges of work commitments, alongside the daily needs of your immediate family and undertaking the role of main carer can collectively impact upon your own health and well -being.

Alleviating unnecessary stress and anxieties

Epiphany is here to alleviate your stress and anxieties, by supporting you with, or undertaking on your behalf, essential tasks that you are struggling to deal with yourself. From time restraints in your daily schedule, to the complexities of the social care arena, we can reassure, guide and advice you to ensure the best interests of vulnerable adults. You may no longer be able to provide much needed assistance due to your own health and care needs, or perhaps you are geographically remote, living many miles away, or even perhaps abroad and therefore unable to provide any hands-on support. Epiphany is able to provide specific task centred support and work in partnership with you, to care manage and ensure the welfare and wellbeing of vulnerable adults.

Irrespective of whether clients are self-funders or eligible for social services funding, we can take away the stresses of trying to decide the best way forward. We have the care expertise and ability to robustly advocate, to ensure responsibilities under the Care Act are duly facilitated so as to ensure client well -being. As your care consultant and representative, we can manage all aspects of facilitating and managing care, inclusive of communication and interaction with social services, health professionals, and service providers in line with your expressed wishes and preferences. We ensure our clients are well informed and appropriately enlightened and advised by us, to ensure sound and well -informed decisions are consistently made. We facilitate peace of mind and reassurance to family and friends who are struggling to find much needed time to act on behalf of a vulnerable adult.

Whatever your concerns, wherever you are and irrespective of the enormity of the task at hand; Epiphany can find amenable solutions and keep you informed and updated every step of the way. Working in partnership with you face to face, or from a distance; to ensure the best interests and welfare of vulnerable adults remain our ultimate objective. We provide you with the reassurance of quality in care provision via the effective case management of identified care needs or equip you with the knowledge and skills to pursue care independently and confidently.

A carer is someone who helps another person, usually a relative or friend, in their day-to-day life. This is not the same as someone who provides care professionally, or through a voluntary organisation. The Care Act relates mostly to adult carers – people over 18 who are caring for another adult. This is because young carers (aged under 18) and adults who care for disabled children can be assessed and supported under children’s law. However, the regulations under the Act allow us to make rules about looking at family circumstances when assessing an adult’s need for care, which means, for example, making sure that the position of a young carer within a family would not be overlooked. The Act also makes new rules about working with young carers, or adult carers of disabled children, to plan an effective and timely move to adult care and support Under section 10 of The Care Act, carers can be eligible for support in their own right via a carers assessment of their needs. The threshold is based on the impact their caring role has on their wellbeing