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Personalisation through person-centred thinking with older people
- Authors:
- SANDERSON Helen, BAILEY Gill, BOWERS Helen
- Journal article citation:
- Community Connecting, 23, November 2009, pp.14-16.
- Publisher:
- Community Connecting
Using case examples, this article describes the Practicalities and Possibilities Development Programme, which was developed by the Older People's Programme, the Centre for Policy on Ageing and Helen Sanderson Associates to help councils and their NHS partners work together to improve outcomes for older people using a range of person-centred techniques, and has been running in 9 local authorities in England over 18 months. The programme includes a resource pack containing lessons and stories showing how the areas (Bournemouth, Buckinghamshire, Cheshire, Cumbria, Dorset, Enfield, Hounslow, Leicester, and Tameside) created a personalised approach using different person-centred tools to learn who the older person is, what is important to them and how they want to be supported. The article sets out the lessons from the local authorities' work for helping older people experience the benefits of personalisation, including involving older people from the start both individually and collectively to identify key priorities, developing partnerships, the importance of a strategic approach with support from a senior lead, investing in creating the right conditions for change, and recognising that it is change both for staff and for older people and families.
Person-centred thinking: a positive approach to risk
- Authors:
- NEILL Max, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Community Connecting, 15, July 2008, pp.9-14.
- Publisher:
- Community Connecting
The issue of risk, as it has traditionally been approved by human services, imposes a barrier to social inclusion and to an interesting and productive life. In this article, the authors discuss an alternative person-centred risk process that has a more balanced approach to risk and keeps the person at the centre of the process.
From a support plan to an Individual Service Fund
- Authors:
- SANDERSON Helen, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Community Connecting, 14, May 2008, pp.6-11.
- Publisher:
- Community Connecting
When someone wants to use their individual budget to buy supports from a provider, they are using an Individual Service Fund. This article looks at how a support plan can inform who the best people are to provide this support for the individual, what support staff need to be able to do, and what agreements are useful to have in place. The importance of person specifications, job descriptions and individual support agreement are highlighted. The article also includes suggested templates for a person specification template and a support workers job description are also included.
What are we learning abut developing Individual Service Funds?
- Authors:
- COOPER Owen, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Community Connecting, 14, May 2008, pp.12-16.
- Publisher:
- Community Connecting
An Individual Service Fund (ISF) is when someone wants to use their individual budget to buy supports from a provider. Providers can develop ISFs in two ways. They can respond to individual commissions from care managers, individuals or their family or through the commissioning process. The other is to proactively transform the block contract monies that they receive and commit to using that money in an individualised way. Ideally this would be done with the commissioner. This article describes the approaches IAS (a provider of services for people with learning disabilities in Greater Manchester) has tried in order to develop more individualised services. Their development of ISFs is a natural extension of the work that IAS has been doing to deconstruct group homes and provide individualised services. The article includes a number of short case studies and also highlights the importance of creating and reviewing support plans
Continuing the conversation: coaching for excellence in community inclusion
- Author:
- ARRIEN Angeles
- Journal article citation:
- Community Connecting, 10, September 2007, pp.26-27.
- Publisher:
- Community Connecting
This article discusses the role person centred coaching can play in enabling person centred plans to be more effective in changing the everyday experience of people with learning disabilities.
From PCP facilitator to person centred thinking coach: from 'process expert' to 'process sharer'
- Author:
- NEILL Max
- Journal article citation:
- Community Connecting, 10, September 2007, pp.10-12.
- Publisher:
- Community Connecting
This article examines the traditional role of the Person Centred Planning facilitator and highlights some of the problems of the role. It looks at how Person Centred Thinking tools and skills need to be integrated in every day work, and how Person Centred Thinking Coaches could be the means to achieve this by 'coaching' people's circles of support and people at every level of services in how to use them.
Towards a more meaningful life: person centred active support
- Author:
- -
- Journal article citation:
- Community Connecting, 9, Summer 2007, pp.10-11.
- Publisher:
- Community Connecting
This article discusses the work of United Response in developing the approach Person-centred Active Support.
A guide to person centred planning
- Author:
- DUFFY Simon
- Journal article citation:
- Community Connecting, 6, Autumn 2006, pp.13-17.
- Publisher:
- Community Connecting
Person Centred Planning is about working with someone to find out what they want to do with their life and working out how to make it happen. It is very different from a 'care plan' or 'assessment', which focus on the 'service' a person needs. The author looks at the key areas of person centred planning and describes four different Person Centred Planning Tools.