What is Shared Lives?
Shared Lives offers person centred quality care and support, where a shared live carer shares their life home and interests with someone who is assessed as requiring social care . Shared lives carers are supported by Dumfries and Galloway Council and are consistently rated the best quality and safest form of social support.
Shared lives Model
Shared Lives is a unique model of personalized support and accommodation with a very strong track record of transforming lives going back over many years.
As a unique and cost-effective alternative that achieves better outcomes than other traditional forms of care such as supported living or residential and long stay hospital, enabling adults to live longer, healthier, happy lives.
