Housing Care and Support, 11(4), December 2008, pp.30-33.
Publisher:
Emerald
This article looks at the role and contribution of informal carers to the social care system, and says more should be done to recognise their skills and knowledge, and better support should be given to prevent their ill-health, thus helping to reduce the rising costs of formal care to local social services.
This article looks at the role and contribution of informal carers to the social care system, and says more should be done to recognise their skills and knowledge, and better support should be given to prevent their ill-health, thus helping to reduce the rising costs of formal care to local social services.
Subject terms:
informal care, social care provision, carers, costs;
Journal of Care Services Management, 4(4), September 2010, pp.270-279.
Publisher:
Taylor and Francis
This paper reviews the challenges faced by unpaid family carers and the current support and services available to them. It argues that current carer support is inadequate and should be built on. It presents the evidence for doing so, including evidence that supporting carers could reduce residential care admissions and therefore make substantial savings in residential care costs. The paper for Caring’ system is proposed which awards a percentage of the value from the personal budget to carers to spend on services to help them sustain their caring role. The paper provides some modelling of the costs and benefits of this approach.
This paper reviews the challenges faced by unpaid family carers and the current support and services available to them. It argues that current carer support is inadequate and should be built on. It presents the evidence for doing so, including evidence that supporting carers could reduce residential care admissions and therefore make substantial savings in residential care costs. The paper suggests a new way in which proposed resource allocation and personal budget systems could be developed in order to sustain caring. The Common Resource Allocation Framework suggests that the amount of unpaid care should be considered when calculating personal budgets, which provides a perverse incentive to families to maximize their personal budgets by ending caring roles. To reduce this risk, a ‘Credit for Caring’ system is proposed which awards a percentage of the value from the personal budget to carers to spend on services to help them sustain their caring role. The paper provides some modelling of the costs and benefits of this approach.
Subject terms:
informal care, personal budgets, social care, social care provision, carers;
An overview of issues for carers' services from a range of documents relating to personalisation, transformation and resource allocation, launched in October 2009, is provided in this short briefing. The briefing discusses carers' rights, personalisation and the law. It is intended to provide advice for guidance only, and not as a full statement of the law. It covers resource allocation systems and the Common Resource Allocation Framework, self-directed assessment, carers receiving payment for care, and new roles for carers managing direct payments.
An overview of issues for carers' services from a range of documents relating to personalisation, transformation and resource allocation, launched in October 2009, is provided in this short briefing. The briefing discusses carers' rights, personalisation and the law. It is intended to provide advice for guidance only, and not as a full statement of the law. It covers resource allocation systems and the Common Resource Allocation Framework, self-directed assessment, carers receiving payment for care, and new roles for carers managing direct payments.
Subject terms:
informal care, personalisation, self-directed support, advice services, carers, direct payments;
This report examines the challenges local councils and health trusts face in making personalisation a reality for carers along side those they care for. It also includes examples of current initiatives which often involving partnerships between Third Sector carers' services and innovative commissioners within councils and the NHS.
This report examines the challenges local councils and health trusts face in making personalisation a reality for carers along side those they care for. It also includes examples of current initiatives which often involving partnerships between Third Sector carers' services and innovative commissioners within councils and the NHS.
Subject terms:
local authorities, NHS trusts, personalisation, adult social care, carers, commissioning, direct payments;
This policy paper looks at how most care and support resources have always been found in families and communities, not in services or state budgets and how we need to see growing ‘social productivity’ as the core business of social care services and commissioners. The paper contains examples of the right kind of interventions happening already, even where care budgets are shrinking. It shows that a ‘networked’ model of care, when formal services fit themselves around informal networks and develop people’s strengths, is more effective and less wasteful than more traditional models of service provision. The government’s White Paper and draft social care Bill go some way to creating a networked model of care focused on well-being and resilience, not crisis-management. But, the paper argues, the Bill must change the system further, ensuring the focus on people’s abilities and potential replaces the needs and deficits focus of current assessment procedures and that everyone, whether eligible for state services or not, can access support to plan their future.
(Edited publisher abstract)
This policy paper looks at how most care and support resources have always been found in families and communities, not in services or state budgets and how we need to see growing ‘social productivity’ as the core business of social care services and commissioners. The paper contains examples of the right kind of interventions happening already, even where care budgets are shrinking. It shows that a ‘networked’ model of care, when formal services fit themselves around informal networks and develop people’s strengths, is more effective and less wasteful than more traditional models of service provision. The government’s White Paper and draft social care Bill go some way to creating a networked model of care focused on well-being and resilience, not crisis-management. But, the paper argues, the Bill must change the system further, ensuring the focus on people’s abilities and potential replaces the needs and deficits focus of current assessment procedures and that everyone, whether eligible for state services or not, can access support to plan their future.
(Edited publisher abstract)
Subject terms:
social care, social policy, policy formulation, needs, carers, communities, participation, strengths-based approach;
Journal of Integrated Care, 18(2), April 2010, pp.41-48.
Publisher:
Emerald
In this article the author reviews current policies and their impact on carers' lives, and highlights the potential limitations of a more personalised approach to care. Using some key research findings and illustrative case studies, the author argues that we should build on the achievements of the personalisation reforms, but not limit our ambition to offering individuals more choice and control
In this article the author reviews current policies and their impact on carers' lives, and highlights the potential limitations of a more personalised approach to care. Using some key research findings and illustrative case studies, the author argues that we should build on the achievements of the personalisation reforms, but not limit our ambition to offering individuals more choice and control over their services. Instead, there should be a focus on individuals achieving ordinary life chances and families achieving emotional and financial sustainability. For people to experience a truly integrated response to their needs, professionals must be able to achieve integration not only across service boundaries, but also across their responses to inter-linked individuals. Recognising this lessens the risk of offering care solutions that result in trade-offs between one family member's independence and another's. In conclusion, the author suggests that the integration of services offered simultaneously to two or more family members is still at an early stage, and that the evidence base for the impact of such approaches is weak.
Subject terms:
integrated services, NHS, personalisation, prevention, social policy, adult social care, carers, families;