Sentence examples for severe care needs from inspiring English sources

Prime Minister Gordon Brown, who is facing a tough election, probably this spring, has pledged free home care for elderly people with "severe care needs" in England and Wales, regardless of a person's financial situation.

The other five care needs levels (care required) range from lowest (care needs level 1) to the most severe (care needs level 5) needs.

We sent out 2,524 questionnaires and 1,152 care recipients with severe care needs, along with their families answered, thus our research achieved a response rate of 46%.

In our survey that was initiated in spring 2012 we focused on home care arrangements of people with severe care needs who fell in the care-level II category, which by definition is more than 180 minutes of daily support and assistance were included in the study.

Visiting nurse services were utilized by the most severe care need level (level 5), consistent with a previous study [ 2], regardless of whether medical procedures were required.

First, assistive devices were utilized by clients with a relatively severe care need level (levels 2 5; nodes 4 8) rather than the lightest care need level (level 1; nodes 1 3).

Third, among clients with the most severe care need level (level 5), most clients who needed a medical procedure (node 8) utilized a home helper and rented an assistive device, and half of them also used visiting nurse services.

But that may not serve the real needs of the victims or community, she said, noting that, "with the Oklahoma City bombing, they're still dealing with severe mental health care needs".

A continuous contact person (e.g., a case manager) is presumed to facilitate access to dementia support [ 9, 12] and is considered good practice in social care for persons with severe and complex care needs [ 33].

Respiratory viral infections are usually self-limited in adults but 4 to 30% can be clinically severe and lead to intensive care needs.

HUI: Health Utilities Index; NLSCY National Longitudinal Surveyy of Children and Youth; PMK: Person most knowledgeable; CSHCN: Children with special health care needs; SHD: Severe health difficulties; CBCL: Child behaviour checklist; QuICCC-R: Questionnaire for Identifying Children with Chronic Conditions – Revised; ICF: International Classification of Functioning.