NOTES

1. Unique reference number

This should uniquely identify the client to you and should be consistent for all assessments.

6. Current accommodation situation

01

Homeless

07 Registered Adult Care Homes

02

Mainstream Housing

08 NHS Facilities / Hospital

03

Special Housing

09 Penal Institution

04

Sheltered Housing

99 Not Known

05

Supported Accommodation

06

Specialist Rehabilitation Units

7. LA Responsible for Care

8. NHS Board of Residence

100 Aberdeen City

280 Inverclyde

C

Argyll and Clyde

110 Aberdeenshire

290 Midlothian

A

Ayrshire and Arran

120 Angus

300 The Moray

B

Borders

130 Argyll & Bute

310 North Ayrshire

Y

Dumfries and Galloway

150 Clackmannanshire

320 North Lanarkshire

F

Fife

170 Dumfries & Galloway

330 Orkney Islands

V

Forth Valley

180 Dundee City

340 Perth & Kinross

N

Grampian

190 East Ayrshire

350 Renfrewshire

G

Greater Glasgow

200 East Dunbartonshire

355 Scottish Borders

H

Highland

210 East Lothian

360 Shetland Islands

L

Lanarkshire

220 East Renfrewshire

370 South Ayrshire

S

Lothian

230 Edinburgh, City Of

380 South Lanarkshire

R

Orkney

235 Eilean Siar

390 Stirling

Z

Shetland

240 Falkirk

395 West Dunbartonshire

T

Tayside

250 Fife

400 West Lothian

W

Western Isles

260 Glasgow City

420 OUTWITH Scotland

270 Highland

9. Ethnicity

00 White

06 Black Caribbean

01 Indian

07 Black African

02 Pakistani

08 Black Other

03 Bangladeshi

09 Other or mixed ethnic group

04 Chinese

10 Not Know / Refused

05 Other Asian

10. RUM scores

Scores from sections of the questionnaire to be recorded.

ADL = Activities of Daily Living

PC/FD = Personal Care and Food/ Drink Preparation

MH/B = Mental Health and Behaviour

B Mgt = Bowel Management

11. RUM group

This has been developed to enable older people receiving services to be classified into groups with similar

levels of need : from 'A' — lowest need to 'I' - highest need

13. Reason(s) for referral

This is the reason why the person has presented for assessment.

01 Discharge following hospital admission

05 Breakdown of carer provision

02 Physical incapacity

06 Request for assessment

03 Mental incapacity

07 Other

04 Injury

14. Underlying problem(s)

These are long term problems that are present at the time of assessment

01 Chronic medical condition

05 Social circumstances

08 None

02 Dementia

06 Housing problems

03 Other Mental health condition

07 Other

04 Learning disability

01 General information and advice, counselling and support and befriending

Giving information (both verbal and written) about available services, eligibility criteria etc. Includes public information leaflets, application forms, referring to other agencies etc.

02 Welfare benefits and concessionary travel advice

Informing and advising people on benefits entitlements and assistance with claims, concessionary travel scheme e.g. blue badge

03 Equipment

Items related to the management of an illness, to rehabilitation, or to assist with activities of daily living (such as bedpans, walking frames, wheelchairs, removable bath and toilet aids, or stair lifts).

04 Adaptations

‘temporary’ and can be redeployed (such as grab rails) and ‘permanent’ (such replacing a bath with a shower, building an additional toilet facility downstairs, or creating ramped access).

05 Home Services (outwith own home)

• Shopping and pension-collection

This provision includes both accompanying the service user or going on their behalf to help with errands such as shopping, visiting the library or post office, collecting prescriptions and collecting pensions.

• Laundry

A dedicated laundry service which is undertaken outwith the person’s own home.

• Community meals

The provision of pre-cooked or frozen meals which are delivered to the person’s own home.

06 Domestic and home care [other than personal care]

Practical services which assist the client to function as independently as possible and/or continue to live in their own homes eg. housework, laundry, meal preparation, lighting fires etc.

07 Personal care (as defined by the Regulation of Care (Scotland) Act 2001

Care which relates to the day to day physical tasks and needs of the person cared for, and to related mental processes, including assisting with: personal hygiene; eating requirements; problems of immobility; medication; getting dressed; surgical appliances, prosthesis and equipment; getting up and going to bed; devices to help memory and safety; behaviour management and psychological support. (Sources: Regulation of Care (Scotland) Act 2001, Community Care and Health (Scotland) Act 2002).

08 Day services/Day Hospital

The provision of services to people outside their normal place of residence.

09 Respite /short breaks

Services provided to people with carers to support both the carers and the cared-for person by providing alternative care for a temporary period (from a few hours to a few weeks) overnight and/or during the day in the person’s own home, in another’s home, in a residential facility or elsewhere.

10 Residential care

Long stay residential care

11 Therapeutic/ intensive behaviour management

Intervention aimed at changing or containing individual’s behaviour which presents risk to themselves or others. eg. challenging behaviour, offending dementia, substance misuse.

12 Rehabilitation following illness or acquired disability

Care or treatment given to improve the existing level of functioning, when a potential for improvement exists, but the capacity for full recovery is uncertain.

13 Specialist treatment or counselling

Interventions delivered by specified skilled staff aimed at restoring normal level of ability, functioning or health. eg. mental illness, bereavement, substance misuse.

14 Regular maintenance services [intensive housing management]

Decorating, gardening etc.