Instructions:

Step 1.

Imagine, that suddenly you become a family caregiver and you have to deal with many situations.

One of them is fact, that your family member’s house or apartment is not set up for people who have problems getting around or managing on their own.

For instance, your father’s bathroom is not arranged in way that person can manage safely on his/her own.

You have to replace the bathtub with a walk-in shower, but you don’t have enough money to do this.

PROBLEM: To check if it is possible to obtain any support for additional funding/co-funding for house adjustments for cared persons.

Step 2.

Using the list developed in the first activity consider in what condition you can get additional funding/co-funding/additional funds (for example, in Poland, a person must have a special disability certificate to obtain refunds for bathroom adjustments).

Prepare all necessary documents and forms which confirm the status which allow to obtain/apply for refunding.

Step 3.

Start a discussion by asking the following questions to the participants:

What is the most challenging experience in this task? And how you can handle it?

Where and to who you need contact first? In what way (by phone)?

What do you expect to learn? What kind of information is needed to do it further?

What mistakes could be avoided?

How could you make this task easier? Who can help you with it?

What advice would you give to caregiver?

Write down all the answers [in every country the context could be different, as well in each local level, depending also on the situation of the person who is in a need to be cared for].

Duration of activity: 1 hour

Materials: preliminary list developed in the first task, necessary documents and forms

Outcomes:

List of answers for the described situation

List of contacts (institutional, organizations, formal assistants and others like family members, friends, neighbours)

List of documents needed to gather for receiving the refunding

List of problems and solutions

Further resources: Internet resources and other relevant institutional leaflets, materials