Temporary cessation of care (respite) and hospitalisation (CLK) 009-06010000

A carer provides care on Tuesday morning and the care receiver enters respite that same day. They provide care again on the Friday afternoon that the care receiver returns home from respite. This would result in a total of two respite dates being coded. The start date is Wednesday and the end date is Thursday.

This is because the carer is taken to have provided care on the Tuesday and again on the Friday. There are only two full 24 hour periods from midnight to midnight that the care receiver was absent.

If a carer is admitted to hospital and is expected to return to the caring duties once released, respite care is to be utilised, as the carer is temporarily not providing care to the care receiver.