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Making sure personal budgets work for older people: briefing
- Authors:
- THINK LOCAL ACT PERSONAL, SOCIAL CARE INSTITUTE FOR EXCELLENCE
- Publisher:
- Think Local Act Personal
- Publication year:
- 2012
- Pagination:
- 4p.
- Place of publication:
- London
The largest part of adult social services expenditure goes on the over 65s. It is therefore important to make sure that older people benefit from personal budgets. Think Local Act Personal (TLAP) working with the Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE) are conducting a review of personal budgets for older people including people with dementia. To date, the review has identified that most councils are finding significant challenges in implementing personal budgets with older people, in particular in achieving good numbers while also being confident that they are making a positive difference. However, the review has also highlighted that there is considerable emerging positive practice in each of the areas identified as challenging. This briefing lists the identified challenges and examples of emerging positive practice. It concludes by calling for the involvement of councils and other organisations which are making good progress in the implementation of personal budgets for older people. The aim is to produce recommendations to central and local government and others to improve results for older people.
Improving personalisation in care homes
- Authors:
- SOCIAL CARE INSTITUTE FOR EXCELLENCE, THINK LOCAL ACT PERSONAL
- Publisher:
- Social Care Institute for Excellence
- Publication year:
- 2019
- Place of publication:
- London
An action planning tool to help managers and owners of care homes for older people to build a shared understanding of what personalisation means and plan practical improvements to make care homes more personalised. Care home managers will be able to use the tool to support good conversations with residents and staff, and identify the improvements that will make the most difference to people’s quality of life. The tool covers: transition; choice and control; identity and purpose; community capacity; co-production; person-centred approaches; positive culture; end of life care; reviewing progress; and forward planning. The tool has been designed to also be used for wider groups of people including those with complex conditions. Originally published in 2017 and updated in 2019. The updated version includes new videos. (Edited publisher abstract)