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- Abbreviations
- Abuse
- Activities of daily living
- Acute care
- Adult at risk
- Adult experiencing, or at risk of abuse or neglect
- Adult safeguarding
- Adult social care
- Adult Social Care Outcomes Framework (ASCOF)
- Advance Care Planning
- Advance decision
- Advocacy
- Aids and adaptations
- Appointee
- Appropriate adult
- Approved Mental Health Professional
- Assistive technology
- Authorised person
- Best interests
- Better Care Fund
- British Sign Language
- Broker
- Capital limits
- Care and support plan
- Care pathway
- Care Programme Approach
- Care Quality Commission
- Care worker
- Carer
- Carer's assessment
- Carers’ services
- Child or young person
- Choice of accommodation
- Client contribution
- Co-production
- Commissioning
- Complaint about a service
- Consent
- Continuity of care
- Costs of care
- Court of Protection
- deaf
- Deaf
- Deferred payments
- Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards
- Deputy (also known as a Court Appointed Deputy)
- Direct payments
- Disability
- Discriminatory abuse
- Diversity
- Domestic abuse
- Domiciliary care
- Duty of care
- Education, Health and Care (EHC) Plan
- Eligibility criteria
- Emergency Duty Team
- Enduring Power of Attorney
- Extra care housing
- Failed visit
- Female genital mutilation
- Financial assessment
- Financial information and advice
- Financial or material abuse
- Forced marriage
- Freedom of Information Act Request
- Funded nursing care
- Independent advocate
- Independent Domestic Violence Adviser (IDVA)
- Independent living
- Independent Mental Capacity Advocate
- Indicative personal budget
- Individual Service Fund
- Integrated Care Board
- Intermediate care
- Key worker
- Lasting Power of Attorney
- Lead professional
- Learning disability
- Liberty Protection Safeguards
- Making Safeguarding Personal (MSP)
- Market Position Statement
- Mate crime
- Means-tested contributions
- Mental capacity
- Mental Capacity Act
- Minimum income guarantee
- Modern slavery
- Multi-disciplinary team
- National Referral Mechanism
- Needs assessment
- Neglect
- Next of kin
- NHS Continuing Healthcare
- No reply
- Occupational therapist
- Oliver McGowan Mandatory Training
- Ordinary residence
- Organisational abuse
- Outcomes (personal)
- Parent carer
- Person in a position of trust
- Personal assistant
- Personal budget
- Personal expenses allowance
- Personal independence payment
- Personalisation
- Physical abuse
- Preventative services
- Primary care
- Professional supervision
- Promoting wellbeing
- Provider
- Psychological abuse
- Public interest
- Reablement
- Reasonable adjustments
- Referral to adult social care
- Regulated activity
- Rehabilitation
- Residential accommodation
- Resource allocation system
- Respite services
- Review of care and support plan
- Risk assessment
- Safeguarding adults
- Safeguarding Adults Board (SAB)
- Safeguarding Adults Review
- Safeguarding conference
- Safeguarding enquiry
- Safeguarding plan
- Section 42 enquiry
- Self-funder
- Self-neglect
- Sexual abuse
- Shared Lives Scheme
- Signposting
- So-called honour based abuse
- Strengths based practice
- Subject access request
- Substantial difficulty
- Supported self-assessment
- Telecare
- Terrorism
- Top ups
- Transition assessment
- Transition to adult care and support
- Trauma informed practice
- Universal services
- Unmet need
- Voluntary organisation
- Vulnerable adult
- Wilful neglect
- Young carer
