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11 May 2009
How to deliver stroke care for adults in the community
Befriending highlighted in Department of Health advice to local authorities
A Department of Health Local Authority Circular of 28 April 2009 gives information about the purpose of funding introduced last year for councils with adult social services responsibilities to demonstrate how to deliver stroke care for adults in the community.
This funding is to help support the implementation of the National Stroke Strategy 2007 which sets out 20 quality markers needed for raising the quality of treatment and care, including social care, for stroke survivors and their carers over the next decade.
The circular highlights the work of Connect befriending scheme whose peer-led befriending project demonstrates how activity, led by people with aphasia for people with aphasia, can start in hospital at admission and can provide seamless transfer of care and support, both back home and through re-integration into the community.
People with stroke receive immediate emotional benefits from the scheme where they are encouraged about their own prospects for recovery and can share top-tips for living with aphasia. This model can also be used for people with stroke but without aphasia. Being a volunteer 'befriender' and advocate can also help 'befrienders' to consider other voluntary or paid work opportunities.
Read the LA Circular here
This funding is to help support the implementation of the National Stroke Strategy 2007 which sets out 20 quality markers needed for raising the quality of treatment and care, including social care, for stroke survivors and their carers over the next decade.
The circular highlights the work of Connect befriending scheme whose peer-led befriending project demonstrates how activity, led by people with aphasia for people with aphasia, can start in hospital at admission and can provide seamless transfer of care and support, both back home and through re-integration into the community.
People with stroke receive immediate emotional benefits from the scheme where they are encouraged about their own prospects for recovery and can share top-tips for living with aphasia. This model can also be used for people with stroke but without aphasia. Being a volunteer 'befriender' and advocate can also help 'befrienders' to consider other voluntary or paid work opportunities.
Read the LA Circular here
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