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17/06/08

Care & Repair helps speed up hospital discharge

Care and Repair launches a new ‘Hospital to Home’ service in Colwyn Bay Hospital today (19^th June 2008).

Many older people feel anxious about returning home from hospital due to concerns around the safety of their home and the cost of any necessary adaptations needed. Hospital to Home, funded by the Welsh Assembly Government provides older people with information about their housing options and the services of Care and Repair. This will help them to make informed choices about returning home from hospital. An experienced Care and Repair caseworker will also be available to visit older people in hospital to help to discuss any concerns and to explore their options.

Launching the service Deputy Minister for Social Services Gwenda Thomas AM said:  “Hospital to Home will help to reduce anxiety and ease the process of returning home for older people. I would like congratulate Care & Repair on this innovative new development.”

Nicola Maund – A Caseworker for Conwy Care and Repair also said “I am sure that Care and Repair can help to make discharge from hospital a more comfortable and speedier process for both the older person and their family and help more people to return to living safely and independently in their own homes”.

Notes to editor:

Care & Repair’s Hospital to Home service is being piloted with two hospitals -   Colwyn Bay hospital in Conwy and Ystrad Mynach hospital in Caerphilly.

Care & Repair agencies exist to enable older owner-occupiers to remain in their own homes, within their own communities, living as independently as possible, through the improvement of their housing conditions and consequent improvement in their level of comfort, health and security.  There are 22 Care & Repair Agencies across Wales.

Care and Repair Cymru is the national body for Wales which promotes, develops and supports Care & Repair Home Improvement Agency Services for older and disabled people. 

For further information please contact:

Rachel Gingell or Vera Brinkworth ( 029 20576286

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17/06/08

Gofal a Thrwsio yn hwyluso gadael ysbyty

Bydd Gofal a Thrwsio yn lansio gwasanaeth newydd ‘Adre o’r Ysbyty’ yn Ysbyty Bae Colwyn heddiw (19 Mehefin 2008).

Bydd llawer o bobl hyn yn poeni am ddychwelyd adref o’r ysbyty oherwydd pryderon am ddiogelwch eu cartref a chost addasiadau angenrheidiol. Bydd Adre o’r Ysbyty, gyda chyllid gan Lywodraeth y Cynulliad, yn darparu gwybodaeth am opsiynau llety a gwasanaethau Gofal a Thrwsio ar gyfer pobl mewn oed. Y nod yw eu helpu i wneud penderfyniadau doeth wrth fynd adref o’r ysbyty. Yn ogystal, bydd gweithiwr achosion Gofal a Thrwsio ar gael i ymweld â phobl yn yr ysbyty i drafod unrhyw broblemau ac ymchwilio’r opsiynau.

Wrth lansio’r gwasanaeth, dywedodd y dirprwy weinidog gwasanaethau cymdeithasol Gwenda Thomas AC: “Bydd Adre o’r Ysbyty yn helpu i leddfu pryderon a hwyluso’r broses o ddychwelyd adref. Llongyfarchiadau i Gofal a Thrwsio ar y datblygiad dyfeisgar yma”.

Ychwanegodd Nicola Maund - gweithiwr achosion gyda Gofal a Thrwsio Conwy “Rwy’n siwr bydd Gofal a Thrwsio yn cefnogi pobl hyn a’u teuluoedd drwy’r broses o adael ysbyty ac yn helpu mwy o bobl i fyw’n annibynnol a diogel yn eu cartrefi eu hunain”.

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Golygyddion

Bydd Gofal a Thrwsio yn cynnal peilot o’r gwasanaeth gyda dau ysbyty -   ysbyty Bae Colwyn, Conwy, ac ysbyty Ystrad Mynach, Caerffili.

Sefydlwyd Asiantaethau Gofal a Thrwsio er mwyn galluogi pobl hyn sy’n berchen eu cartrefi i barhau i fyw ynddynt, o fewn eu cymunedau ac mor annibynnol â phosibl. Byddant yn gwneud hynny wrth wella cyflwr cartrefi gan eu gwneud yn fwy cysurus, iach a diogel. Mae 22 Asiantaeth Gofal a Thrwsio yn gweithio drwy Gymru.

Care & Repair Cymru yw’r corff cenedlaethol sy’n hyrwyddo, datblygu a chefnogi gwasanaethau Asiantaethau Gofal a Thrwsio ar gyfer pobl hyn ac anabl. 

Gwybodaeth bellach

Rachel Gingell neu Vera Brinkworth ( 029 2057 6286