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  • Reablement

    What Is Reablement & How Does It Help You Regain Independence?

    Reablement helps you regain independence after illness or hospital. Learn what it involves, how long it lasts, who pays, and how it differs from home care.

  • Choosing Care

    Home Care vs Care Home: Which Is Right for Your Family?

    Compare home care and care homes on cost, independence, quality of life and practicality. An honest comparison to help your family decide.

  • End-of-Life & Palliative

    Palliative Care at Home: What It Is & How It Helps

    Understand palliative care at home: what it involves, who provides it, how NHS Fast Track funding works, and how families are supported in West Sussex.

  • Cost & Funding

    Funding Home Care: Attendance Allowance, NHS CHC & Council Support Explained

    How to fund home care in West Sussex: Attendance Allowance, NHS Continuing Healthcare, council support and self-funding explained, with the 2026 thresholds.

  • Regulation & Quality

    Understanding CQC Ratings: What to Look for in a Care Provider

    What CQC ratings actually mean, the five key questions inspectors ask, how to read a report properly, and why a rating alone isn’t enough.

  • Carer Support

    Carer Support in Worthing & Adur: A Directory

    Support for unpaid carers in Worthing and Adur: your right to a carer’s assessment, named local charities, benefits, emergency planning and free respite routes.

  • Wider West Sussex

    Home Care in the West Sussex Villages & Coastal Towns

    Home care beyond Worthing: Lancing, Goring, Ferring, Steyning, Storrington, Littlehampton and the Downs villages — coverage, costs, travel time and funding.

  • Choosing Care

    Direct Payments & Personal Budgets: Paying for Care Your Way

    Direct payments let you take council care funding and choose your own provider. How they work, what the admin really involves, and who they suit.

  • Companionship

    What Does a Companionship Carer Actually Do?

    What a companionship carer actually does across a visit, what they don’t do, why visits run two to four hours, and how to get value from the time.

  • Domestic Care & Home Help

    Domestic Care at Home: Help with Cleaning, Laundry & Meals

    Domestic care covers cleaning, laundry, meals and shopping. Usually the easiest help to introduce, because it is help with tasks rather than with a person.

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