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- Abuse
- Adult at risk
- Adult experiencing, or at risk of abuse or neglect
- Adult Safeguarding
- Adult Social Care Outcomes Framework
- Advance Decision
- Advocacy
- Alert
- Approved Mental Health Professional
- Assessment notice
- Assistive Technology
- Attorney (also known as a donee with lasting power of attorney)
- Authorised person
- Better Care Fund
- Broker
- Business failure
- Care costs
- Care Programme Approach
- Case management
- Circle of support
- Clinical Commissioning Group
- Co-production
- Consent
- Continuity of care
- Court of Protection
- Deferred payment
- Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards
- Deputy (also known as a Court Appointed Deputy)
- Direct payments
- Discharge notice
- Discriminatory abuse
- Domestic abuse
- Duty to Enquire
- Education, Health and Care (EHC) Plan
- Enquiry (Safeguarding Enquiry)
- Financial information and advice
- Health and Wellbeing Boards
- Independent Advocate
- Independent financial information or advice
- Independent living
- Independent Mental Capacity Advocate
- Intermediate care
- Joint Strategic Needs Assessments
- Likely Need
- Making Safeguarding Personal (MSP)
- Market Position Statement
- Mate Crime
- Mental capacity
- Modern slavery
- National Referral Mechanism
- Neglect
- NHS Continuing Healthcare
- Nominated person
- Ordinary residence
- Organisational abuse
- Outcomes (Personal)
- Parent carer
- Personalisation
- Physical abuse
- Preventative measures
- Psychological abuse
- Reablement
- Regulated Activity
- Regulated financial advice
- Relevant day
- Relevant partners
- Safeguarding Adults Board (SAB)
- Safeguarding Adults Review
- Safeguarding conference
- Safeguarding Plan
- Self-neglect
- Sexual abuse
- Significant Benefit
- Telecare
- Temporary duty
- Top ups
- Transition assessment
- Unmet need
- Wellbeing
