New Funding to Support Independent Living for Older and Disabled People

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  • Rachel_Scope
    Rachel_Scope Posts: 2,996 Scope Online Community Coordinator

    I'm so glad that it's made such a difference for you @JessieJ.

  • JessieJ
    JessieJ Online Community Member Posts: 1,312 Championing

    Thanks, @Rachel_Scope, it was definitely worth the wait.

  • Wibbles
    Wibbles Online Community Member Posts: 3,317 Championing
    https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/1096598#Comment_1096598

    But was your work a new extension or adaption of existing building ?

  • Chris75_
    Chris75_ Online Community Member Posts: 4,840 Championing
    https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/1096813#Comment_1096813

    I am getting my hospital bed and shower wheelchair next Friday. The excitement never stops!

  • JessieJ
    JessieJ Online Community Member Posts: 1,312 Championing

    @Wibbles, it makes no difference what my work was, as, with works like an extension, as I've already posted, there are extra ways that the DFG is added to to cover it.

    Seriously, more funding, more people could benefit & feel the relief that I am feeling right now, it's a win, whether big or little adaptations are needed!

    @Chris75_, that is great news! It'll go someway to making you feel more comfortable & safer. It is exciting! Not quite like white water rafting, but exciting all the same & let's hope it doesn't stop.

  • Wibbles
    Wibbles Online Community Member Posts: 3,317 Championing
    edited January 28

    Chris75_ Online Community Member Posts: 4,410 Championing January 20 edited January 20

    I am at a loss as to what a council leaseholder is, I don't think we have such things here? I didn't get any kind of grant, well, if there is a grant, it is nothing to do with me, and all done by OT.

    I could look up t'internet about leaseholders, but life is too short !

    Are you in Cornwall then? I have never been that far south west. I have been to Brighton once. (How exotic, eh?). That is plain old south though. 😉

    If you bought a former council flat or maisonette, either through Right to Buy or on the open market, you are likely to be a leaseholder. You'll have a legal agreement with the council (the “freeholder”) called a lease.

    This means that you still have a few benefits - see https://www.birmingham.gov.uk/leaseholders for more !

  • RichardsP
    RichardsP Online Community Member Posts: 4 Listener

    I'm disabled and living in my partners privately owned outright home. Can this scheme help me? I've enquired with a few places, but they only deal with housing association/ council residents. I'm currently sleeping in the living room on a mattress over two sofas and using a bucket for toilet needs, the kitchen sink for washing and its very difficult to get in and out of the property as it has a large step, and means entering on my backside.

  • birdwatcher
    birdwatcher Online Community Member Posts: 187 Empowering

    Wonder what an 'older adult 'means? I'm 65 this year. But in my head I'm 40! My body's let me down. it must think I'm 100. Severely physically disabled. Awful as it sounds I haven't had a bath for about 4 years, I can't safely use it now. I have to **** wash but it's not the same. Sometimes I think a shower would be nice but at the moment the house is falling down about my ears,got a problem with subsidence which is supposed to be being sorted out. We're about five years in with that particular issue,all the legalities etc. It just drags on and on.So really I suppose it's not worth me even enquiring

  • Wibbles
    Wibbles Online Community Member Posts: 3,317 Championing
    https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/1099856#Comment_1099856

    Yes - a ramp, bed and mattress def - but as for an accessible bathroom - I am unsure whether they look at your partners finances or your own - apply anyway, you've got nothing to lose

  • Chris75_
    Chris75_ Online Community Member Posts: 4,840 Championing

    Thankfully we can't buy our council accommodation in Scotland. Locking the stable door after the horse has bolted, but it must help little.

    In the nearly 11 years of the existence of my street, there have been as many as 4 tenants in some of the houses. Better that than some expectant offspring who never visits getting it!

  • sarah_lea12
    sarah_lea12 Online Community Member Posts: 441 Empowering

    I moved into an adapted bungalow last June, my OT put in for funding for a level access shower , they came to draw up the plans two weeks ago , no time frame though for it being fitted, but I'm excited about it .

  • Mary_Scope
    Mary_Scope Posts: 4,096 Scope Online Community Children and Family Specialists

    This is great news @sarah_lea12, just knowing that things are moving forward is good enough sometimes! Hopefully you won't be waiting too long for it

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