Aspect Living

Aspect Living works with the NHS to provide a care package to the elderly and vulnerable to enable them to safely be discharged from hospital and have the support to get back into the community and independent living.

 Aspect Living works very closely with all the Suffolk hospital discharge and social care teams and, hearing the struggle of bed space in the NHS, started a project called Hospital to Home (H2H). Aspect Living received £18,000 for the Hospital to Home meal service, where it delivers hot, nutritious meals and a health and wellbeing check to the elderly and vulnerable across Suffolk.

 H2H has worked with over 400 elderly and vulnerable people whilst freeing up hospital beds for other patients.

Tess Aristo, CEO of Aspect Living says:

“There have been occasions when we have gone into a customer’s home and have found them unwell or having had a fall.  If the driver had not been there to deliver a meal, we would not have been able to help. A lot of the elderly feel it is taking their independence away when they accept help, but they soon realise that we, and other organisations, are working together to support their independence at home.

“We can also evidence that this support has stopped many people ‘yoyoing’ back and forth to hospital; an average of 63% of H2H users have stayed healthy and totally independent in their own homes.

“One of our service users had been in and out of hospital eight times in four months.  The hospital discharge team introduced her to the H2H project and, since then, she has not been admitted again to hospital. We are not just a support to the service user but the family members.”