1. Prevention and Assistive Technology
Stuart Brown - Adult Early Help Manager
Lucy Forrest - Assistive Technology and Sensory Services Team Manager

2. Adult Early Help
Reablement
Enhanced response
Prevention
Assistive Technology
Sensory Services
Discharge planning

3. Purpose of Services Increasing: Reducing: Independence
Choice and control
Use of community support
Self-care opportunities
Support for informal carers
Hospital admissions
Crisis
The need for formal support
Dependency on others

4. The Transforming Lives Model Right Skills, Right People
Safeguarding
Help To Help Yourself
Accessible, friendly, quick, information, advice, advocacy, support to carers and families, universal services to the whole community, prevention, early identification and early intervention
Right Skills, Right People
Help When You Need It
Immediate short-term help, time limited, reablement, rehabilitation, intense support to help regain independence, minimal delays, no presumption about long term support, goal-focused, integrated support
On-going Support for Those Who Need It
Self-directed, personal budget based, choice and control, highly individualised, integrated support, strengths based

5. Adult Early Help Phone or face-to-face in-depth conversations.
Focus on prevention and wellbeing through a strength based approach.
Build a plan around the customer, looking at outcomes and aspirations.
Make use of natural and local support within the community.
Break the link to long term care and promote empowerment and independence.
Reduce hand offs to other teams and ensure early resolution.

6. Assistive Technology
Loan of equipment to individuals based on a preventative need
Activity assessments using “Just Checking”
Carers UK - “Jointly” app
Linked telecare using lifelines
Enhanced Response Service E.R.S
Standalone reminders and prompts
Alerts for carers and family using pagers

7. Sensory Services Visual Impairment Rehabilitation
Assessment, advise and signposting
Deaf equipment
Registration
Expert guidance to colleagues

8. Meet George.

9. Any thoughts or questions?
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