b'or using the Contact us form on the How to get adultPlease note the service cannot help with personal care, social care support section of our website. You can alsodressing wounds, lifting, counselling and administering call using Relay UK on 18001 01243 642121 (frommedication. However, it can support you to find the a textphone or the NGT Lite app downloaded onto ahelp you need. Although the service cannot do your computer, tablet or smartphone). shopping for you, it can pick up essential items while supporting you to find a shopping service that meets Learning Disabilities Healthyour needs.FacilitationTeam To arrange this service, please contact Age UK West This team of nurses specialises in supporting people withSussex, Brighton and Hove. Or you can ask a hospital a learning disability to access health care. The teamward nurse, social worker, GP, friend or relative to works with GPs and hospital staff and can help you whencontact them on your behalf.you go into hospital or go to an outpatient appointment. Age UK West Sussex, Brighton and Hove, Learning Disabilities Health Facilitation Team,The Laburnum Centre, Lyon Street, Sussex Community NHS Trust,Bognor Regis, West Sussex PO21 1UX Horsham Hospital, Hurst Road ,Phone: 01903 717130 Horsham, West SussexEmail: supportathomeafterhospital@ageukwsbh.org.uk Phone: 01403 620438 Website: www.ageuk.org.uk/westsussexbrightonhove/Email: sc-tr.ldhf-horsham@nhs.net(search under Support at home after hospital).Opening hours: Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm Website: www.sussexcommunity.nhs.uk/patients- Supported Hospital DischargeHome First and-visitors/services/learning-disabilities-health- Hospitals are the right place to be when you need facilitation-team medical or surgical treatment. However, it is proven Support at Home after Hospital that people who are medically fit recover better at home than in hospital.Age UK West Sussex, Brighton and Hove work inSupported Hospital Discharge is an approach where partnership with Guild Care and Carers Support Westhealth and social care professionals work together to Sussex to provide a Support at Home after Hospitalhelp you to recover at home, with the right support, service. This service is for older people in West Sussexwhenever its safe to do so. who live alone, and family and friend carers, to help them recover after a hospital stay. The services provided by Supported Hospital Discharge This service is for: are led by Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust, #people aged 65 or over; who will support you for the first few days you are home. After you have been assessed at home, Sussex #older people living alone; Community NHS Foundation Trust will arrange the #family or friend carers aged 18 or over who havemost appropriate service to support your needs.been in hospital or who are caring for someone who has just come out of hospital; and Supporting you to leave hospitalDischarge #people who are due to be discharged or have justto Assess with Reablement Servicereturned from hospital. We have a 24-hour service which can support you Support at Home after Hospital will provide ato leave hospital and continue your recovery and volunteer to visit you in your home for up to six weeksreablement (helping you regain your independence). to support you while you regain your confidence andThe service provides 24-hour support in a care home independence. Some of the ways the volunteer couldwhere there are social care workers, occupational help you include: therapists and trained care staff.#visiting you for a chat; The service plays an important role in supporting you #carrying out small practical tasks inside and outsideto safely leave hospital as soon as possible and makes your home; sure no long-term decisions about your care and support needs are made in hospital.#helping you to get your prescriptions and shopping;#supporting you to attend your hospital or doctorsThe service is free for the period of reablement that your appointments; occupational therapist has identified that you need.#helping you with your caring role, for example,For more information, read our leaflet, Supporting you to staying with the person you care for while you go out; leave hospitalDischarge to Assess with Reablement.#providing information on other services andTo read this online, visit www.westsussex.gov.uk and contacting services on your behalf; and search under Adults social care publications to find #helping with finances, paperwork and benefita list of all our information leaflets. Or you can ask for entitlements. a paper copy of the leaflet by contacting our Adults CarePoint by calling 01243 642121 or using the There is no charge for this service.12Living well in your community 2024/25'