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Support when going home

Leaving hospital and going home is a huge step in your journey towards recovery. However when you are at home you will not have the same support you had in hospital and it can be a difficult time for you and your relatives. See the link to a 5 minute and 54 second video by the Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine about this important part of the recovery journey.

https://www.ficm.ac.uk/forpatientsrecoveryafterintensivecare/going-home-following-a-critical-care-admission

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Web Link: Age UK information on care and support available

This weblink contains information about the care and support available to you, including financial needs assessments, adaptations to your home and information about looking after someone else.

Web Link: Age UK Lambeth, including MyCommunity for over 18s

MYcommunity can offer support to anyone in Lambeth aged over 18 who needs help. Our MYcommunity Gateway team is available to speak to you about what help is available. This could be as simple as referring you to a service, like MYsocial to help tackle loneliness, talking to you about social prescribing, or finding you longer-term support. Types of advice can include: Providing information and support around housing or finances, including help with claiming benefits Introducing you to...

Web Link: British Red Cross - getting help with mobility aids or emotional support

British Red Cross provide practical, local and emotional support to people around the UK. Find out how we can help you or someone you care for, and learn more about our services. Follow the weblink for information on: emotional support Loneliness British Red Cross support line (>200 languages spoken) Call free and confidentially, 10am to 6pm daily on 0808 196 3651 They support people who are lonely, worried, and finding it difficult to access food or medication in the...

Web Link: Carers UK - "making life better for carers" - a website for help and support for carers

Across the UK today 6.5 million people are carers, supporting a loved one who is older, disabled or seriously ill. Caring will affect many people at some point in their lives. Care UK give expert advice, information and support. Caring can be extremely complicated. The maze of rights and entitlements can be complicated. Filling in paperwork can be complicated. Getting a break can be complicated. Our feelings about caring can certainly be complicated. Care UK make sure that no matter...

Web Link: Carers UK: Equipment for caring

The Carers UK website provides information on the different types of equipment to help with caring. Different types of equipment or changes to your home (or the home of the person you care for) could help make the home safer and life easier by providing independence for the person you are looking after, and peace of mind to you. Included on the website is a list of room-by-room ideas including items of equipment (such as a raised toilet seat), smaller adaptations (such as fitting grab...

Web Link: Carers UK; supporting you to take a break

This website and videos explain what defines a break and why taking a break is so important when you are a carer.

Web Link: Citizens Advice Bureau Merton and Lambeth

We provide support and advice services that are FREE, INDEPENDENT, IMPARTIAL and CONFIDENTIAL. We have enabled more than 20,000 Merton and Lambeth residents to seek our support every year. Support and advice includes: welfare benefits assessment and application support debt advice housing and more. You can contact us by: phone email online in person

Web Link: Digital ICU Recovery Pathway

What is the digital ICU recovery pathway? The digital ICU recovery pathway provides support to you and your family during your recovery from ICU. This support can start once you leave ICU and remain in place until you are seen in the critical care recovery clinic at 2-3 months after returning home. The pathway is centred around setting and achieving your recovery goals and is delivered via an app on your phone/smart device. You are supported by a dedicated recovery coordinator throughout...

Web Link: Emotional aspects of recovery

Admission to an intensive care unit because of critical illness or an accident can have a huge impact on someone's life, both physically and emotionally. Many people said that, as well as recovering physically, they had to accept and deal with what had happened to them emotionally. Here people talk about recovering emotionally after being in intensive care.

Web Link: Finding local talking therapies service

If you live in England and are aged 18 or over, you can access NHS psychological therapies services. A GP can refer you, or you can refer yourself directly without a referral. This link will help you find NHS services in your local area

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