Briefly examines the implications of the personalisation agenda for housing providers. The challenges of providing choice and the role of local government are covered. Key messages and three short case studies are also included.
Briefly examines the implications of the personalisation agenda for housing providers. The challenges of providing choice and the role of local government are covered. Key messages and three short case studies are also included.
An evaluation of has found that Choice Support's personalisation programme to support adults with learning disabilities has delivered better lives for adults with learning disabilities while saving £1.79 million. The evaluation found a number of initiatives had developed through the programme, including Individual Care Plans, Individual Service Funds (ISFs), personal support workers
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An evaluation of has found that Choice Support's personalisation programme to support adults with learning disabilities has delivered better lives for adults with learning disabilities while saving £1.79 million. The evaluation found a number of initiatives had developed through the programme, including Individual Care Plans, Individual Service Funds (ISFs), personal support workers and an improved night support scheme. The evaluation also found positive views on the programme from support workers, parents and social service staff
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SITRA, YORKSHIRE AND HUMBER HOUSING RELATED SUPPORT GROUP.
Publisher:
Sitra
Publication year:
2010
Pagination:
39p.
Place of publication:
London
This report aimed to highlight the contribution of Housing Related Support to the achievement of positive outcomes for vulnerable people across the area. The study focused on how housing related support: enables individuals facing multiple disadvantage to improve their wellbeing; complements the strategic objectives of a wide range of stakeholders involved with supporting vulnerable individuals; offers good value for money, by preventing the need for expensive crisis interventions and long term institutional solutions; promotes independence, by enabling service users to take control of their own lives; and provides a platform for the development of wider service choice. Using a combination of case studies, stakeholder interviews and cost/benefit analysis, the report found that housing related support provides a cost effective way of delivering services to a wide range of vulnerable people. It achieves positive outcomes in line with people’s personal circumstances and prevents demand for more expensive options.
This report aimed to highlight the contribution of Housing Related Support to the achievement of positive outcomes for vulnerable people across the area. The study focused on how housing related support: enables individuals facing multiple disadvantage to improve their wellbeing; complements the strategic objectives of a wide range of stakeholders involved with supporting vulnerable individuals; offers good value for money, by preventing the need for expensive crisis interventions and long term institutional solutions; promotes independence, by enabling service users to take control of their own lives; and provides a platform for the development of wider service choice. Using a combination of case studies, stakeholder interviews and cost/benefit analysis, the report found that housing related support provides a cost effective way of delivering services to a wide range of vulnerable people. It achieves positive outcomes in line with people’s personal circumstances and prevents demand for more expensive options.
Housing Care and Support, 12(2), September 2009, pp.4-7.
Publisher:
Emerald
Personalisation requires the individual person to be at the centre of the process of design, delivery and evaluation of housing, care and support services. This briefing looks at what personalisation means for housing providers, for instance tailoring support to people’s individual needs to enable them to live full and independent lives, and aims to point housing providers in the right direction to put personalisation into practice. The Social Care Institute for Excellence says that housing providers must now be focused on giving people much more choice in how and where they want to live, as well as being committed to ensuring that those homes are well-designed, flexible and accessible. Two case studies where housing providers are already putting people first are described. The article
Personalisation requires the individual person to be at the centre of the process of design, delivery and evaluation of housing, care and support services. This briefing looks at what personalisation means for housing providers, for instance tailoring support to people’s individual needs to enable them to live full and independent lives, and aims to point housing providers in the right direction to put personalisation into practice. The Social Care Institute for Excellence says that housing providers must now be focused on giving people much more choice in how and where they want to live, as well as being committed to ensuring that those homes are well-designed, flexible and accessible. Two case studies where housing providers are already putting people first are described. The article suggests that there should be less local authority block contracts and more individuals purchasing care directly.
Subject terms:
independent living, housing departments, personalisation, person-centred care, social housing, supported housing, supported living;
This research aimed to build on existing knowledge, and increase understanding about accommodation services and housing for people with disabilities. The project was in two parts. Part 1 aimed to improve understanding of how people with disabilities access housing in Australia as well as to identify strategies to improve access to housing. Part 2 described innovative models of care for people with disabilities requiring 24 hour support, developed a service framework describing key components of successful models and a cost-effectiveness analysis of selected models compared to 24 hour staffed group homes. Contents include: existing supported living arrangements; goals of supported living policy; facilitators and barriers; framework for effective supported living services; national case studies; application of framework for effective supported living services to the case studies; cost effectiveness analysis. The report concludes that trends in Australian accommodation support policy for people with disability are consistent with international policy changes. Factors most likely to be associated with cost effective approaches to accommodation support include: a focus on client outcomes; administration practices; affordability of services; sustainability.
This research aimed to build on existing knowledge, and increase understanding about accommodation services and housing for people with disabilities. The project was in two parts. Part 1 aimed to improve understanding of how people with disabilities access housing in Australia as well as to identify strategies to improve access to housing. Part 2 described innovative models of care for people with disabilities requiring 24 hour support, developed a service framework describing key components of successful models and a cost-effectiveness analysis of selected models compared to 24 hour staffed group homes. Contents include: existing supported living arrangements; goals of supported living policy; facilitators and barriers; framework for effective supported living services; national case studies; application of framework for effective supported living services to the case studies; cost effectiveness analysis. The report concludes that trends in Australian accommodation support policy for people with disability are consistent with international policy changes. Factors most likely to be associated with cost effective approaches to accommodation support include: a focus on client outcomes; administration practices; affordability of services; sustainability.
Assistive technologies (ATs) are being ‘mainstreamed’ within dementia care, where they are promoted as enabling people with dementia to age in place alongside delivering greater efficiencies in care. AT provision focuses upon standardised solutions, with little known about how ATs are used by people with dementia and their carers within everyday practice. This paper explores how people with dementia and carers use technologies in order to manage care. Findings are reported from qualitative semi-structured interviews with 13 people with dementia and 26 family carers. Readily available household technologies were used in conjunction with and instead of AT to address diverse needs, replicating AT functions when doing so. Successful technology use was characterised by ‘bricolage’ or the non-conventional use of tools or methods to address local needs. Carers drove AT use by engaging creatively with both assistive and everyday technologies, however, carers were not routinely supported in their creative engagements with technology by statutory health or social care services, making bricolage a potentially frustrating and wasteful process. Bricolage provides a useful framework to understand how technologies are used in the everyday practice of dementia care, and how technology use can be supported within care. Rather than implementing standardised AT solutions, AT services and AT design in future should focus on how technologies can support more personalised, adaptive forms of care.
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Assistive technologies (ATs) are being ‘mainstreamed’ within dementia care, where they are promoted as enabling people with dementia to age in place alongside delivering greater efficiencies in care. AT provision focuses upon standardised solutions, with little known about how ATs are used by people with dementia and their carers within everyday practice. This paper explores how people with dementia and carers use technologies in order to manage care. Findings are reported from qualitative semi-structured interviews with 13 people with dementia and 26 family carers. Readily available household technologies were used in conjunction with and instead of AT to address diverse needs, replicating AT functions when doing so. Successful technology use was characterised by ‘bricolage’ or the non-conventional use of tools or methods to address local needs. Carers drove AT use by engaging creatively with both assistive and everyday technologies, however, carers were not routinely supported in their creative engagements with technology by statutory health or social care services, making bricolage a potentially frustrating and wasteful process. Bricolage provides a useful framework to understand how technologies are used in the everyday practice of dementia care, and how technology use can be supported within care. Rather than implementing standardised AT solutions, AT services and AT design in future should focus on how technologies can support more personalised, adaptive forms of care.
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The term ‘personalisation’ has come to dominate policy and practice for people with learning disabilities. However, it is a term that can be used in many different ways. The aim of this paper is to explain the development of the concept of personalisation and its dependence upon prior innovations such as independent living, person-centred planning and individual budgets, and to explore its meaning, limitations and future prospects. The paper takes the form of an analytical and historical review of ideas that have been important in the recent history of public policy for people with learning disabilities. The paper argues that the innovations associated with personalisation were instead inspired by citizenship. People with learning disabilities, along with other disabled people, have been engaged in a struggle to achieve full citizenship. Recent reforms that go by the name of personalisation treat disabled people as citizens and may mark an important stage in the development of a fairer system. However, these innovations are limited by the lack of more fundamental reforms and at best are only stepping stones for a fairer society that takes citizenship for all seriously.
The term ‘personalisation’ has come to dominate policy and practice for people with learning disabilities. However, it is a term that can be used in many different ways. The aim of this paper is to explain the development of the concept of personalisation and its dependence upon prior innovations such as independent living, person-centred planning and individual budgets, and to explore its meaning, limitations and future prospects. The paper takes the form of an analytical and historical review of ideas that have been important in the recent history of public policy for people with learning disabilities. The paper argues that the innovations associated with personalisation were instead inspired by citizenship. People with learning disabilities, along with other disabled people, have been engaged in a struggle to achieve full citizenship. Recent reforms that go by the name of personalisation treat disabled people as citizens and may mark an important stage in the development of a fairer system. However, these innovations are limited by the lack of more fundamental reforms and at best are only stepping stones for a fairer society that takes citizenship for all seriously.
Subject terms:
independent living, learning disabilities, personal budgets, personalisation, person-centred planning, policy formulation, social policy, supported living, citizenship, direct payments;
SITRA, YORKSHIRE AND HUMBER HOUSING RELATED SUPPORT GROUP.
Publisher:
Sitra
Publication year:
2010
Pagination:
59p.
Place of publication:
London
... in personalisation of services, and working together including service user involvement.
Housing Related Support is funded by the Supporting People element of each local authority's Area Based Grant, and provides housing related support services for vulnerable people. This study, commissioned by the Yorkshire and Humber Housing Related Support Group, aimed to highlight the value of Housing Related Support services look at their achievement in providing positive outcomes for vulnerable people. It included in-depth case studies with eight service users who had benefited from Housing Related Support and interviews with key stakeholders. The report includes an overview of Housing Related Support in Yorkshire and Humber, and covers tackling multiple disadvantage, Supporting People: outcomes and service quality, the financial benefits of Housing Related Support, good practice in personalisation of services, and working together including service user involvement.
Subject terms:
housing, personalisation, prevention, supported housing, supported living, vulnerable adults, case studies, cost effectiveness, evaluation, good practice;
Journal of Assistive Technologies, 4(4), December 2010, pp.46-50.
Publisher:
Emerald
Hft is a national charity for people with learning disabilities and their families. Its aim is to seek out innovative solutions that offer individual support enabling people to lead fulfilling lives. Hft is a pioneer in the development of personalised technology for use by people with learning disabilities. This article illustrates the central role that personalised assistive technology has played in enabling six individuals living in traditional registered care to live more independently in supported living situations in their community in Cornwall. Each case study describes the background to individual situation, the key technology selected, the reasoning behind this, and the benefits gained. Staff worked with each individual to encourage their growing independence, gradually reducing the intensity of support once confidence and safety was established.
Hft is a national charity for people with learning disabilities and their families. Its aim is to seek out innovative solutions that offer individual support enabling people to lead fulfilling lives. Hft is a pioneer in the development of personalised technology for use by people with learning disabilities. This article illustrates the central role that personalised assistive technology has played in enabling six individuals living in traditional registered care to live more independently in supported living situations in their community in Cornwall. Each case study describes the background to individual situation, the key technology selected, the reasoning behind this, and the benefits gained. Staff worked with each individual to encourage their growing independence, gradually reducing the intensity of support once confidence and safety was established.
DH Care Networks. Housing Learning and Improvement Network
Publication year:
2010
Pagination:
106p.
Place of publication:
London
This update to ‘Care in Extra Care Housing’ (Housing Learning and Improvement Network 2005 Technical Brief no. 1), with regard to policy changes in the United Kingdom, includes a section on personalisation and is extended with reference to regulatory frameworks. In addition to an introduction, and closing ‘about the Housing LIN’, 6 sections entitled ‘characteristics of care and support in extra
This update to ‘Care in Extra Care Housing’ (Housing Learning and Improvement Network 2005 Technical Brief no. 1), with regard to policy changes in the United Kingdom, includes a section on personalisation and is extended with reference to regulatory frameworks. In addition to an introduction, and closing ‘about the Housing LIN’, 6 sections entitled ‘characteristics of care and support in extra care’, ‘commissioning care and support in extra care housing – social housing sector’, ‘revenue and charging arrangements’, ‘legal relationships’, ‘care delivery’, and ‘how much care?’, broaden the scope to include self-directed support, personal care and other support such as housing-related support. A listing of government agenda, e.g. ‘Putting people first’, Acts and judgements occurring in the past 4 years is presented and with Extra Care Housing (ECH) remaining a hybrid of housing-related/community care legislation, the scope of ECH has widened and more regulatory framework information is presented. Nine additional case studies have been detailed. The authors advise of potential impact of the Personal Care at Home Bill, the Law Commission’s plans ‘to tidy up community care legislation’ and government’s green and white papers, ‘Shaping the future of care together’ and ‘Building a national care service’, respectively.
Subject terms:
home care, local authority housing, personalisation, private sector, public sector, self-directed support, supported living, case studies, community care, extra care housing;