Services in the Home and Community

The following is a brief description of some of the services we may be able to arrange to help adults and older people.

For people who are in need of personal care or services in the home or community.

It is not intended to be a full list, as services are wide-ranging and may vary depending on individual needs.

• Adult carers

• Adult and Community Education

• Advocacy for social services clients

• Arranging for your own care

• Assessment of need

• Assistive Technology

• Care at home / Home care

• Community and day centres

• Blue Badge - (Disabled People - Parking Permits)

• Extra Care housing is purpose built

• Fair Access to Care Services 

• HIV - support and Information

• Hospice care for adults

• Keeping warm in winter

• Local Support Groups for Adults and Older People

• Lunch clubs

• Mobile meals - meals on wheels

• Needs assessment by social services

• Out of hours social services support

• Protection of vulnerable adults

• Residential care and nursing homes

• Respite care for adults

• Shared Lives 

• Sheltered housing

• Supported housing

• Sitting service

More useful websites

• Action Deafness - local organisation providing services to anyone with any kind of hearing loss 

• Age UK - national organisation offering advice, information and services for older people

• Age Concern Leicester - offering advice, information and services for older people in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland

• British Red Cross - provides a number of services to offer support and advice to elderly people

• Alzheimer’s Society - the UK’s leading care and research charity for people with dementia, their families and carers

• Cancer Research UK - the UK's leading charity dedicated to cancer research

• CLASP (Carers of Leicestershire Action and Support Project) - advice, information and services for carers of all ages.

• DirectGov - information for the over 50's from the central government
  

• Leicestershire AIDS Support Services - independent voluntary organisation providing a range of services for people affected by HIV/AIDS

• Leicestershire CareOnLine - website with access to care information in Leicestershire

• Leicestershire Centre for Integrated Living - empowering disabled people

• Mosaic: shaping disability services - providing services for mainly physically disabled people and their carers

• The New Futures Project training programme - Awareness and knowledge of prostitution and trafficking

• Vista - Royal Leicestershire, Rutland and Wycliffe Society for the Blind - advice, information and services for people who are visually impaired.