Dependency Assessment

- Dependency Assessment

Keep Track of Residents’ Needs

Our dependency assessment tool helps you keep track of your care home residents’ requirements. An integrated dependency tool gives you a score to identify the dependency level of each resident.

The tool can also help you detect any changes in their levels of dependency.

- Dependency Assessment

Configure Risk Assessment

Our tool is used to configure risk assessment at each stage in a resident’s care plan. It provides guidance to help nurses and caregivers eliminate risk and provide the best possible care to each resident.

- Dependency Assessment
- Dependency Assessment

Monitor Progress of Residents

Data from dependency assessments can be used to monitor progress in a resident’s condition. It evaluates how treatments are working (or not) to reduce a resident's dependency level.

It can also set criteria for the number of staff members needed to manage residents’ care and assistance at any one time.

Key Benefits

Help improve and inform the treatment process.

Enable carers to make better decisions about the level of support required.

Allow carers to observe a resident’s health progress over a longer period of time.

Help you reach greater compliance standards.

Frequently Asked Questions

Dependency assessment is used to identify the individual needs of a resident, as well as how effectively a prescribed treatment course is reducing their dependency.

The A dependency tool produces a score that identifies their level of dependency. Factors can include diagnosed medical conditions, level of mobility, cognitive abilities and general behaviour and mood.

The results from a dependency assessment inform how a risk assessment is drawn up for each resident. It provides personalised guidance so that the carers and other medical staff can concentrate on how best to care for the resident and keep them safe.

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