Planning your Support

When the care manager visits you for the core assessment, you will be able to explore your needs in more detail and focus on what is important for you to achieve. It also helps us to work out how much the cost of your support will be, and how much we may be able to contribute to the cost.

All assessments are free, even if you have substantial savings or property. Carers can also have their own separate assessment.

Your care manager will concentrate on the areas where you have told us that you are having problems, and will work with you to set goals to help you to remain independent in your own home for as long as possible. These are the types of things your core assessment for long-term care might cover: 

• Personal care needs, such as any help you need with eating, drinking and other such as washing and bathing
• Practical aspects of daily living such as laundry, shopping and paying bills
• Any problems you have getting out and about our involvement in your local community, your place of worship, hobbies or work, education and volunteering
• Your home, family and your health, including your mental health
• Your family and carer responsibilities
• Your safety and security at home and outside
• The support you have at the moment from family, friends and neighbours

Your views on what you want to achieve, and the views of your family or carer, are vital to the assessment. Once the assessment has been completed, your care manager will put forward a funding request for approval. If we agree to make a contribution to the cost of your support, we will award you an Individual Budget.