What Is Reablement Care?

Reablement care, also called intermediate care, is a type of short-term homecare that may be necessary after a hospital stay, accident or an illness to enable you to become independent again. Some people might also refer to reablement care as post-operative or post-surgical care, but these are slightly less specific terms as they don’t suggest an obvious end date, whereas reablement care is specifically aimed at people who will regain their independence after the period of care.
Reablement care usually runs for a maximum of six weeks, although the average is about two, and it consists of support in the home with tasks to increase independence, such as mobility support. An integrated care team will usually be involved with reablement care, meaning professionals from all areas of the NHS and the wider social care team may be involved. This can consist of homecare workers, nurses, occupational therapists, physiotherapists, social workers and doctors.

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What Are the Benefits of Reablement Care?

Reablement care is beneficial because it sets clear goals for your recovery and means you have a specific aim to work towards. This can also be broken down into smaller goals that you can aim for on a daily or weekly basis meaning you get to see tangible results of your recovery from very early in the process. This can benefit your mental health as well as your physical recovery because you can see for yourself that you are getting better and that you will eventually be able to regain your previous lifestyle, or very near to it.
We can offer reablement care on both a live-in and visiting basis. This means that you can have scheduled homecare visits as often as you require or have one of our carers living in your home with you. With both services you get excellent standards of care from dedicated and compassionate carers, however if you wish to have a carer with you around the clock then live-in care would be more suitable.