Lo1 Flashcards
What is personalisation?
Everyone who receives support will have choice and control over the shape of the support in all care settings.
Recognising the person has individual strengths, preferences, wishes and aspirations
Person at the centre of the process of the care
Individuals have to decide which outcomes they wish to achieve in the house that needs to be met
Have a proactive approach
Involved in decision-making not make it for them
What does personalisation mean to an individual?
Empowerment
Control
Addressing needs
Participation
Choice
Preference
Meeting aspiration
Independence
Key features - personal budgets
Agreed amount of money used to carry out or deliver certain aspects of profession set out in individuals support plan
Means tested cash payment - look up pensions and savings, et cetera
Given by the local authority
Given after needs assessment by social services
Given to both people with care and support needs, and also Carers
Two ways - direct payments and managed account (authority controls. How much is given for what)
Direct payment
Paid to the individual
If they lack mental capacity, it’s paid to authorised or nominated person like a family or friend or an advocate
Used to pay for community care services - homecare, respite care, services and equipment
Individuals are rangers own care
Keeps records in accounts for Hall. The money is spent to social services
Not allowed to employ partner or close, relatives,
Cannot be used for long-term payments, residential care, 
managed accounts
-personal budget allocated to meet care needs
-not payed directly to individual
-local authority manages the account
-local authority organises appropriate care and support in line with their wishes
-can be spent on things to achieve their goals and aspirations
-can be spent on a personal assistant
-gives the individuals choice about their care
key features- co-production
-collaboration/working together. partnership between citizens and public services to achieve valuable outcomes
-it means that individuals receiving care are involved in designing and planning services, deciding about the allocation of resources delivering services e.g. through volunteering and evaluating services
-a working partnership between citizens and public services
-empower citizens to contribute time, expertise and effort to their local communities
-sharing skills and expertise for benefit of individual
-less expensive
key features- choice and control
supporting and enabling individuals to make their own decisions
-housing options - care home, live independently
-support plans - who they want to help them
-personal budgets
-support in the form of a personal assistant - increase autonomy, enabling and sustaining the rights of individuals to make choices
key features - self-assessment needs
-overall process for identifying and recording the health and social care risks and needs of an individual and evaluating their impact on daily living and equality of life so that appropriate action can be planned
-carried out by social services in individuals own home
-local authority decides how much money should be spent on the individuals care needs - indicative budget
-care needs can include equipment or home adaptations
-carer will also have a carers assessment
key features - changing role of professionals
- the individual knows what is best for themselves, not the professional without compromising safeguarding issues
-empowerment
-valued
-raising self-esteem
benefits of personalisation
-more opportunities to socialise
-gain and maintain control
-can remain in own home - leaving may feel like leaving possessions and memories behind or that they feel they are dependent. if remain, can choose what they want to do
-inclusion in community - feel valued and respected
-improves information and guidance - must have all choices laid out
-improved quality of life - if have more control=more confidence to socialise
-improved self-esteem - socialising=better self-esteem
positive impact of personalisation
-direct payment for care allows rapid access to services - individual can have support as and when they need
-access to information and guidance for better choices
-remaining in own home
-inclusion within communities
-new opportunities - socialise, hobbies
negative impacts of personalisation
-care is limited in the personalised budget, cant over spend
-availability and access to some services may be restricted
-worry about spending the budget
health and social care act
-act reinforces personalisation in social care and empowers patients to make choices
-enables patients to choose services that best meets their needs, including from charity or independent sector providers, as long as they meet NHS costs
-patients can choose to have their treatment in a hospital of their choice
-the act also establish new health watch patient organisations to give patients a voice. monitor was established as a specialist regulator to protect patients interests
-act strengthened collective voice of patients, service providers and commissioners should welcome feedback to assess quality of their services
-act provided basis of better collaboration, partnership working and integrating across local government and NHS
Health and social care act - challenges
-over next 20 yrs, population over 85 is mean to more than double
-£30bn shortfall is predicted for NHS by 2021
-£16.5bn funding gap projected by local government association 2020
health and social care act - response
-join up health and care around the person
-do more about behaviours that lead to health problems
-tackle avoidable or inappropriate use of health and social care services
-a more comprehensive approach to social care provision and funding