Coming out of hospital
Deciding to care, or continue caring, for someone
who is coming out of hospital can be very difficult.
It is important to remember that
it is your choice whether or not to
take on a caring role.
Before the person you are looking
after comes home from hospital
a discharge assessment should
be carried out to see whether
they need any support once they
are discharged. This discharge
assessment should look at whether
the person you are looking after
is eligible for any intermediate or
reablement care, NHS continuing
healthcare or NHS funded nursing
care, other NHS services and/or
community care services from the
local authority.
You should also be offered a carer’s
assessment to see whether you
as a carer need support once the
person you are looking after is
discharged.
Find out more at
carersuk.org/hospital
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Managing someone’s affairs
You may want to help manage the affairs of the
person you are looking after, or may want to know
how to plan for doing this in the future.
There are different ways of
managing someone’s affairs
depending on whether the person
you are looking after can currently
make decisions for themselves
(which is called having mental
capacity) or whether they are
Looking after someone
unable to make decisions for
themselves (which is called lacking
mental capacity).
Find out more at carersuk.org/
managing-someones-affairs
carersuk.org