Adult Social Care Glossary, v 0.6

Services delivered away from home, for example, in a community hospital

Assessment and interventions provided in a bed-based setting, such as an acute hospital, community hospital, residential care home, nursing home, stand-alone intermediate care facility, independent sector facility, local authority facility or other bed-based setting. Bed-based intermediate care aims to prevent unnecessary admissions to acute hospitals and premature admissions to long-term care, and to support timely discharge from hospital. For most people, interventions last up to 6 weeks. Services are usually delivered by a multidisciplinary team but most commonly by healthcare professionals or care staff (in care homes).

What and where? - Acute or community-based services that provide assessment and interventions to people in bed-based settings. For most people interventions last up to 6 weeks. Why? - Aims to prevent unnecessary admissions to acute hospitals and premature admissions to long-term care, and to support timely discharge from hospital. Who? - Delivered by multidisciplinary teams but most commonly by healthcare professionals or care staff (in care homes).