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Personalisation briefing: implications for carers
- Authors:
- SOCIAL CARE INSTITUTE FOR EXCELLENCE, CARERS UK
- Publisher:
- Social Care Institute for Excellence
- Publication year:
- 2009
- Pagination:
- 5p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This At a glance briefing examines the implications of the personalisation agenda for carers. Two main elements of personalisation are highlighted. How personalisation impacts on the support provided to the person the carer is looking after, which may help both them and you. Secondly, how personalisation affects the support provided to carers, after a carer’s assessment. Short case examples
Dementia 2014: infographic
- Author:
- ALZHEIMER'S SOCIETY
- Publisher:
- Alzheimer's Society
- Publication year:
- 2015
- Pagination:
- 18
- Place of publication:
- London
An interactive infographic exploring the impact of dementia and its scale. It shows that dementia costs the UK £26.3 billion a year, unpaid carers are overworked and under supported and that too many people with dementia aren't living as well as they could. (Edited publisher abstract)
Budgets door ajar for carers
- Author:
- CARSON Gordon
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 28.10.10, 2010, pp.22-23.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Discusses the benefits of personal budgets for carers, which are a priority for government's new vision for adult care, due next month. A short case study of a couple who benefited from Surrey's carers' personal budget scheme is also included. The scheme gave them the choice to use the money for a joint activity rather than for short break respite care.
'Pick and mix': supporting carers to have a break
- Author:
- THOMPSON Alison
- Journal article citation:
- Community Connecting, 22, September 2009, pp.14-15.
- Publisher:
- Community Connecting
The short break services provided by Heritage Care to help both people with learning disabilities and their carers is presented. The article explains how the introduction of personal budgets (including Individualised Service Funds) has enabled the organisation to develop more customised and flexible services. The organisation provides both residential and outreach services.
Well suited or stitched up?
- Author:
- FOX Alex
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 5.6.08, 2008, pp.16-17.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
The government envisages early tailored support to help family carers. The author discusses whether personalisation can meet the needs of carers.
Skills social care workers need to support personalisation
- Authors:
- MORIARTY Jo, MANTHORPE Jill, CORNES Michelle
- Journal article citation:
- Social Care and Neurodisability, 5(2), 2014, pp.83-90.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to consider what implications the government's policy of personalisation has for social care workers in terms of the skills that they need to achieve more personalised support for people using services and family carers. Design/methodology/approach: A total of 86 semi-structured interviews were undertaken with a purposeful sample of social care they had been caring and the particular issues that they faced in terms of the health problems that the person for whom they cared was emphasised. The relational aspects of care are important. Research limitations/implications: This was an exploratory study and may need to be replicated before generalisations could be made. Originality/value: Existing published research on personalisation rarely discusses its implications for the social care workforce in terms of their skills. There is also still only a limited literature looking at personalisation from the perspective of family carers and those working with family carers. (Publisher abstract)
Carers and personalisation: what roles do carers play in personalised adult social care? What roles do carers and service users want carer to play?
- Authors:
- MITCHELL Wendy, et al, UNIVERSITY OF YORK. Social Policy Research Unit
- Publisher:
- NIHR School for Social Care Research
- Publication year:
- 2013
- Pagination:
- 4
- Place of publication:
- London
From January 2011 until December 2012, the Social Policy Research Unit examined how current English adult social care practice balances the interests of service users and family carers, in assessment, planning, on-going management and reviews of personal budgets, particularly when budget-holders have cognitive or communication impairments. A survey of councils in two typical English regions examined senior local authority perspectives, everyday practice by frontline staff and experiences of service users and carers. Although managers and practitioners reported that they informed carers of their rights to separate assessments, there was otherwise little consistency, and practice. There was little evidence that separate carer assessments were routinely conducted or linked to service user assessments, personal budget levels and support plans. However, carers were routinely involved in planning how the service user’s PB would be used. Wider debate is needed, within on-going resource constraints, about delivering support to service users and carers that recognise both their independent aspirations for choice and control and their interdependent relationships. Such debate should inform further development of the 2013 Care Bill and subsequent practice guidance. (Edited publisher abstract)
Personalisation: a new dawn or the end of the road for third sector support for carers?
- Authors:
- MILLER Robin, LARKIN Mary
- Publisher:
- Third Sector Research Centre
- Publication year:
- 2013
- Pagination:
- 26
- Place of publication:
- Birmingham
Personalisation has become a key aspiration of adult social care policy in England, although perspectives on its meaning vary. Third sector organisations (TSOs) see personalisation as an opportunity to deliver more flexible and holistic support, but also as a potential financial challenge. Carers play a vital role in adult social care, and personalisation affects services for carers as well as those directly accessing care. TSOs have traditionally played a significant role in this area. This study explores the issues created by personalisation for TSOs who work with carers, through interviews with TSOs, public sector commissioners and policy makers. It reveals that there is a general consensus across the public and third sectors regarding the basic principles behind personalisation, their potential to be a force for improvement within carers’ services, and the need for a whole systems change. Where consensus ends is in the parts of the system which are most in need of change, and who should be trusted with the limited resources available to achieve personalisation. The authors make recommendations for research and practice for TSOs, local authorities and Health and Wellbeing Boards. (Original abstract)
Personalisation and carers: whose rights? Whose benefits?
- Authors:
- MORAN Nicola, et al
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Social Work, 42(3), 2012, pp.461-479.
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
There are concerns about the extent to which cash-for-care schemes include and support carers. This study investigated the use of a cash-for-care initiative piloted in England in 2005 to 2007 – the Individual Budgets (IBs) pilot projects. Qualitative interviews were held with IB lead officers, carers' lead officers and carers of IB holders; and analyses were undertaken of interviews with carers of IB holders and carers of people in receipt of conventional social care services. Findings revealed that, despite their primary aim of increasing choice and control for the service user, IBs had a positive impact on carers of IB holders. The authors concluded that the findings were important in that they have implications for the widespread roll-out of Personal Budgets in England, and may also provide lessons about policies aimed at promoting choice and control by disabled and older people.
How to write meaningful standards of care
- Author:
- MASON Elizabeth J,
- Publisher:
- Delmar
- Publication year:
- 1994
- Pagination:
- 311p.
- Place of publication:
- Florence, KY
- Edition:
- 3rd ed.
Health care professionals with administrative and managerial responsibilities will appreciate this book's proven, step-by-step methods for writing effective standards. This book reflects rapid changes in the delivery of health care and has been expanded to include standards for all clinical groups. Focuses on health care units that can be computerized and used to individualize care