Accommodation
The person with a depressive illness could live in a number of scenarios with varying levels of support. The greater the level of disability, the greater the level of support that is likely to be provided.
A person with a mild or moderate depressive illness is likely to live in their own home, either with or without support from another individual.
A person with severe depressive illness is likely to live in residential accommodation, either supported or supervised.
Home
This is defined in this context as a house, bedsit or flat.
Residential accommodation
This is defined in this context as accommodation provided by an external agency where there are arrangements for either intermittent support or regular supervision, and includes:
Supported Group home
Lives with 3 - 10 or more people, often with different mental health disorders, where support workers visit several times a week or daily, but are not present at night. Sometimes a warden may live on site but would only be called on at night in an emergency.
Residential accommodation with 12 to 24 hours supervision
Lives in a group home or hostel where support workers are present throughout the day. In addition, the support workers either sleep in at night (they would expect to be called if the residents needed attention at night or an emergency occurred) or are present at night (because the residents may exhibit disturbed behaviour at night that would require intervention from trained staff).
Care Programme Approach (CPA)
Amended September 2011
