Bridgend County Borough Council

AIMS OF THE SERVICE The Community Resource Team offers an early health and social care assessment, and where required, will deliver a time limited, short term intervention to people in their own home or in the Reablement Unit with the following aims:  To support and complement existing Health and Social Care mainstream services.  To prevent or stop a progressive deterioration in a person’s physical condition or level of independence.  To maximise or maintain the independence and quality of life of people with long term conditions, their families and carers.  To prevent avoidable acute hospital admission.  To facilitate earlier discharge from hospital where support is required to optimise independence.  To enable people whose skills for living independently have been reduced, to regain or acquire new skills so they can regain confidence and remain living in their own home.  To reduce the number of placements in residential and nursing homes and to offer an alternati