Continuing Care Support

Expert Long-Term Continuing Care Support

Forest Healthcare provides a wide range of continuing care services, offering support, companionship, personal care, and nursing assistance in warm, friendly, inclusive care homes and specialist nursing centres. Our skilled team members get to know every resident’s needs, wishes, preferences and personality, helping us tailor our care to the individual.

Private accommodation, freshly prepared meals, clinical care, ongoing monitoring, and a diverse calendar of entertainment and social events ensure that continuing healthcare residents have all of their emotional and health needs met in a respectful environment that acts as a home from home.

Continuing care services offer a comprehensive plan of assessment and treatment to meet the specific needs of people living with serious injuries, illness, or certain mental health conditions. This is long-term residential care, which includes accommodation and meals, as well as clinical care, supervision, and various social activities and entertainment throughout the day.

Choosing a Care Home for Continuing Care Services

Every resident is different, and continuing healthcare covers a broad range of conditions, whether you or a loved one has a medical diagnosis, a disability, complex mental health needs, a progressive illness that requires dedicated and long-term compassionate support following an extended hospital stay. Continuing care is wholly adaptable, with every resident encouraged to be fully involved with the care assessment process.

The primary aim of continuing care services is to ensure that every resident receives the right care to assist with the treatment or management of any particular disease or condition they may have, with a familiar routine, trusted care team members and healthcare services delivered by registered nurses within our nursing care centres.

Where residents receiving continuing healthcare need help to attend healthcare appointments, clinics provided by NHS organisations or any hospital services, we make all the arrangements on their behalf, accompanying the resident and their family members to ensure the journey is comfortable and well supported.Due to the diversity of continuing healthcare services and the varied levels of nursing, personal care, and mobility support each person may need, we recommend contacting the Forest Healthcare team or any of our experienced home managers for a confidential chat about you or your loved one’s requirements.

Forest Healthcare Centres Offering Continuing Care

The below care home centres offer continuing healthcare assistance – please contact your preferred location at any point for assistance meeting the assessed needs of you or a loved one or for information about finding appropriate care.

Understanding the Importance of a Continuing Care Assessment

We appreciate that many families find the prospect of having a health or financial assessment daunting, but this process is valuable. Residents may find that the local authority asks a social worker to conduct a full evaluation to ensure they understand the level of nursing care a person needs which may lead to NHS Continuing Healthcare funding.

While most people needing urgent continuing care can request a fast-tracked process or arrange continuing care promptly through a private care facility, many also receive help with their funding arrangements, with evaluations managed by the local Integrated Care Board.

Completing an assessment further allows us to identify the specific care needs of the resident, putting together a personalised care package in partnership with other healthcare providers, consultants or social care professionals who are engaged in their continuing care.

Forest Healthcare can also refer to an assessed health report to recommend the best accommodation, depending on the condition or diagnosis of the resident, the types of treatment, medication or healthcare support they need, and any specialist equipment or facilities required.

Continuing care is available for adult residents of any age, whether older people who need help with memory care and conditions such as dementia or younger adults who have a disability or condition that means they need a dedicated care plan and ongoing assistance.

What to Expect From Continuing Care Services

The nature of continuing care means that every resident’s day-to-day support may differ from another. Each Forest Healthcare care home with a continuing care service provides committed and respectful care, helping residents and their loved ones decide on the right care plan and approach.

Depending on the primary health need and the independence or mobility of the individual, a continuing care resident may benefit from the following:

• Long-term accommodation with a private room or suite and the ability to furnish the space with any items from their own home for comfort and familiarity.
• Professional care with all aspects of mental and physical health, ranging from medication and pain management to physiotherapy and psychiatric assistance.
• A welcoming residential facility with communal spaces, care teams available 24/7, all meals, snacks and refreshments, and social and entertainment activities.
• Access to qualified nurses and professional clinical care for residents living in our fully equipped nursing centres.

Where continuing care residents have a diagnosis or condition that is expected to progress, we often suggest a nursing care service to offer the assurance of healthcare support on hand and to avoid the disruption and upheaval of a transition to a better-suited care home later on.

Organising an NHS Continuing Healthcare Assessment

Although a formal assessment is not always necessary where continuing care is arranged and funded solely by the resident or their family members, it may be advisable where Clinical Commissioning Groups can provide help with health and social care costs, including care home fees.

The NHS Continuing Healthcare system uses a full assessment to determine whether people are eligible for financial help, depending on their nursing care needs, overall health, and whether they are well enough to live comfortably and happily in their homes.

For more information about how NHS-funded nursing care works or to enquire about capacity within our high-quality care and nursing homes offering continuing care, you are welcome to get in touch at any time or book a good day to visit one of our outstanding facilities in person.

General features of a continuing care home:

• Long-term
• Physical and mental health
• Residential facility
• Meals and activities
• Care Team members available day and night
• Qualified nurses
• Clinical care