Complex Care
What is Complex Care?
Complex care, continuing care or long-term care is the care required for someone with substantial healthcare needs.
This could be due to a disability, a debilitating mental health condition or a chronic illness and may include physical and mental diagnoses.
Complex Care can be provided in peoples own homes.
Complex care needs can also be brought about from complications after a medical procedure resulting in brain injury, muscular dystrophy, or injury of the spinal cord as examples.
Conditions that cause complex care needs can include:
- Huntington’s Disease
- Locked-in Syndrome
- Cerebral Palsy
- Motor Neurone Disease
- Multiple Sclerosis
- Muscular Dystrophy
- Spinal Cord Injury
- Use of feeding tubes
- Acquired Brain Injury
- Ventilated Clients
- Physical disability
- Cerebral palsy with significant disability
- Chronic health conditions such as diabetes and heart disease
- Additional health conditions like diabetes, dementia, and other factors can restrict independent living.
Individuals with complex needs will have one or more conditions which means they may require full time care and be dependent on specially trained carers.
Everyone with Complex Care needs requires their own complex care management support plan that considers their specific circumstances when planning a course of treatment and care to enable them the highest quality of life possible. Care can be delivered in an individual’s own home.
If you or someone you are responsible for requires complex care, it is important to get support from a specialist like Yorkshire and Humber Healthcare Alliance who have the relevant experience and understanding required to provide good quality care.
