View report page

53
HOME HELP SERVICE
The Home Help service is provided to meet the needs of people
who for various reasons such as home confinement, sickness or old age, are
either temporarily or permanently unable to carry out housework or need
assistance towards such tasks as shopping, cleaning or washing.
The service is provided on the recommendation of the family doctor
and the amount of service is assessed on need by the home help supervisor,
and on availability of home helps. A charge is made based on the cost of
the service, but is reduced according to the recipient's means where
necessary.
The establishment of the equivalent of 60 full time home helps
has never been reached, but at 31st December 1967 there were 93 home helps,
equivalent to 42.3 full time staff.
The home help service offers a rewarding job for anyone interested
in helping those in need. It is not just dull repetitive work but involves
meeting people and giving social help and encouragement as well as
domestic assistance.

The total number of hours devoted to patients by the home help
service was 75,751.