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Personalisation briefing: implications for occupational therapists in social care
- Author:
- SOCIAL CARE INSTITUTE FOR EXCELLENCE
- Publisher:
- Social Care Institute for Excellence
- Publication year:
- 2010
- Pagination:
- 5p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This briefing examines the implications of the personalisation agenda for occupational therapists. Personalisation for occupational therapists in social care means: understanding and embracing the social model of disability; providing choice, control and a person-centred approach to assessment/review and delivery of support and services. A number of brief case studies illustrate the ways in which occupational therapists can support personalisation.
Personalisation for someone with a physical disability
- Author:
- SOCIAL CARE INSTITUTE FOR EXCELLENCE
- Publisher:
- Social Care Institute for Excellence
- Publication year:
- 2009
- Place of publication:
- London
This video introduces Stephen Page, a man with Multiple Sclerosis. He emphasises how important it is that he can relate to his PA and chat with her as well as receiving personal assistance and help with basic tasks. Maintaining his social and cultural life is very important to Stephen and having a personal budget has enabled him to continue to attend events which help him to lead his chosen life and preserve his personal identity. He is a creative and talented person who needs to maintain his interests and activities for his own well-being. Stephen emphasises that personalisation can support people as individuals.
Supporting parents with additional needs
- Author:
- SOCIAL CARE INSTITUTE FOR EXCELLENCE
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 6.11.08, 2008, pp.26-27.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Summarises some of the key messages from a recent SCIE knowledge review, 'Supporting disabled parents and parents with additional support needs'. The knowledge review aimed to define the needs of parents at different stages of parenthoods and assess the type of support that they needed at each stage.
Working with lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people: people with physical disabilities: Doug's story
- Author:
- SOCIAL CARE INSTITUTE FOR EXCELLENCE
- Publisher:
- Social Care Institute for Excellence
- Publication year:
- 2010
- Place of publication:
- London
In this film we meet Doug, a gay man with physical disabilities who is in residential accommodation eight miles away from his friends and family. Doug carefully considered when to ‘come out’ within residential care and explains that this is a continual process because of the high turnover of residential care staff.
Discrimination and insensitivity about Doug’s being ‘out’ to other residents and suggestions by his providers to ‘keep quiet’ around other residents are highlighted in the film. Doug feels he has little opportunity to meet other gay people, so he feels isolated and cut off from the gay community.
Doug believes that a cultural shift and change in attitudes in social care is vital in order to provide relevant care for LGBT people. He also feels that direct payments are only one part of a solution to offer more choice and control to the user of services.