With the social care sector continuing to be blighted by underfunding and significant staff shortages, a community-centred approach may be vital to salvage the industry and encourage families to unite with care workers.
Community-centred approaches to both health and wellbeing offer a plethora of benefits to some of the most vulnerable people in the country and utilize some of the main health assets that are present in many local communities.
These can include the skills and competence of individual community members as well as economic resources and community cohesion through friendship building.
With a report conducted by VODG (Voluntary Organisations Disability Group) revealing that by 2025 there will be 11.7 million disabled people living in England, there couldn’t be a more pertinent time for care providers to relish the benefits of a community-centred approach to care.
Stephen Wilson, Director of novacare | recruit said: “A community-centred approach to care would rely on care professionals working in an empowering way to unite members of communities for the greater good of vulnerable individuals.
“The social care sector is significantly underfunded and the impending doom of Brexit could also mean that the industry will soon be facing even more unfilled vacancies. An estimated 90,000 adult care jobs in England are filled by EU workers and England’s exit from the EU could affect those individual’s right to work. Both of these factors mean that it is vital for providers to look for new approaches to get the job done.”
Not only does a community-centred approach hold huge benefits in terms of money-saving as it utilises facilities within the public, private and third sector, it also ensures that people feel more connected to their communities, which could in turn boost their health.
With research conducted by Public Health England revealing that loneliness increases the risk of premature mortality by 26%, a community-centred approach that encourages friendship and neighbourliness could be a resolution to the widening social care issues.
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