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WHAT
DO WE DO?
There
are many severely handicapped or chronically ill people of all ages who can only
live at home because there is a caring relative or friend helping to look after
them. Providing this type of help
for someone quite often means that it is a full time job and can often be 24
hours a day every day.
CROSSROADS
will offer the help of a care attendant to enable a devoted caring person to
have some time off.
WHY?
Providing
some regular assistance for the caring person can help to relieve the strain
they feel. Having time for
themselves can give carers the rare opportunity to rest or visit the shops,
anything they wish to do with their own time.
Having
the chance to take these breaks can make life a lot easier for those who do the
caring and those who are cared for, helping them to continue to live in their
own home longer instead of a hospital or residential home.
HOW?
Any
person who is caring for a chronically ill or disabled person can ask for our
help simply by contacting their local Social Work Department.
Our
Co-ordinator will arrange to visit you to discuss what type of help would be
most useful to you. Help can be
given during the day, in the evening or even overnight if you need a good nights
rest.
Our
help is given as well as any help you may already receive from the District
Nurses or Home Helps. This means
that we do not replace these services but add to them.
WHO?
The
Care Attendants that come to your home will all have received some basic caring
training, but the important training will come from you, the carer, that they
are temporarily replacing.
Some
of our Care Attendants have received special training in caring for people who
suffer from Senile Dementia and we offer their services to those caring for
these people.
Although
we are a Charity all of our Care Attendants
are paid, by us for the work that they do.
PLEASE
REMEMBER
If
for any reason your circumstances change or the demands upon you, as a carer,
become more difficult, please do not hesitate to contact us.
We can if necessary change the arrangements we have made to suit your new
circumstances.
Please
inform us of any time that our services are not required, i.e. if the person you care for is in hospital or does not need our
help that day. Doing this will give
us the opportunity to send our care attendant to another client until you need
our help again.
If
the person you care for needs to be given any tablets or medicine by our care
attendant we will need your written permission. Contact us and this can easily be arranged.
WHO
PAYS?
The
money to provide our service comes from West Lothian Council but this money is
limited and only goes part of the way to pay for all that we do.
Everything else is paid for from donations we receive and money we
generate from holding fund raising events.
WHERE?
Crossroads
Care Attendant Scheme (West Lothian) Ltd. is the scheme that covers the whole of
West Lothian.
If
you would like to find out more, ask about receiving our help or would like to
make a donation please contact us at the following address.
CROSSROADS
CARE ATTENDANT SCHEME
(WEST LOTHIAN) LTD
17 EAST MAIN STREET
WHITBURN
WEST LOTHIAN
EH47 0RA
Tel: 01501 742944
OFFICE
HOURS 8.30 AM - 4 PM
MONDAY
- FRIDAY
COMMENTS
AND COMPLAINTS
If
you should like to make a comment or complaint about the service you are
receiving, this can be done by contacting us at the above address.
VOLUNTARY
MANAGEMENT
Each
Crossroads scheme has been created and is managed by a group of local people who
have an interest and concern for carers either professionally or personally.
Crossroads
Care Attendant Scheme (West
Lothian) Ltd. Management Committee
are:-
Chairman
- Dr W G Carlaw
Vice
Chair
- Mrs A Hossack
Secretary
- Mrs M Mighton
Treasurer
-
Miss V Smith
Members
- Mrs A Young, Miss B Stein,
Mrs M Brown.
Each
Crossroads scheme has an affiliation to a national organisation that provides
support and advice to each member scheme.
CROSSROADS
(SCOTLAND)
CARE ATTENDANT SCHEME
24 GEORGE SQUARE
GLASGOW
G2 1EG