WP3997a - Community Reablement (Phase 1)

Reablement is a strengths-based, person-centred approach that promotes and maximises independence and wellbeing. It aims to ensure positive change using user-defined goals and is designed to enable people to gain, or regain, their confidence, ability, and necessary skills to live as independently as possible, especially after an illness, deterioration in health or injury. It is therefore fundamentally different to that of homecare provision. The Council currently does not have a community reablement service which is accessible on a universal basis to all local people in the borough. The Counc…