LO1 Flashcards
What is the definition for personalisation?
Personalisation is recognising that the individual has strengths, preferences, wishes and aspirations and that the service user is always at the center of the process.
What is a support plan?
The document where the day to day preferences and requirements are detailed to enable an individual to live with dignity and respect
If an individual is in charge of their own care what are they being?
Proactive
5 key features of personalisation
Choice and control
Self assessment of needs
Personal budgets
Co production
Changing role of professionals
What is choice and control?
Allows individuals to make their owen decisions about where and how their care is provided. Choice and control increases autonomy
Why might an individual not want choice and control?
- lack of confidence
-resistance to change
-want professional to make the decision
-may not understand the choices they have - lack of mental capacity
- not knowing what’s best for them
Self assessment of needs
Led as far as possible by service user. Service user and provider work together to focus on outcomes the service user wants to achieve. The local authority decides if service user is eligible for long term social care support and how much money is needed for this. This is known as an indicative personal budget. This also talks about preventative measures eg handrails
What is a preventative measure?
Home adaptations such as handrails, stairlifts
What is the changing role of professional?
-the control has moved from the profesional to the service user
-service provider can empower service user by listening to their wishes and aspirations
- service provider allows service user to make their own decisions even if they don’t agree
-professional must provide the individual with all the information they need to know about their choices
What is co production?
- used to describe partnership between people working together
- empowers citizens to contribute time to their communities
EG social workers,service users and providers working together.
What is a personal budget?
-an agreed amount of money used to deliver a care plan or deliver certain aspects of a support plan
-the individual can spend this on anything related to the support plan
What 2 ways may a personal budget be taken by an individual?
Direct payment
Managed account
What is direct payment?
-direct payment to the person or a nominated person
- gives responsibility to individual
- only applies to non-residential care services and short term care services
What is a managed account?
-personal budget allocated to meet care needs
- may include paying for community care by local authorities
- can be spent on a personal assistance
- managed by local authorities in line with service users wishes
- not paired directly to the person
- gives the individual choice
- the individual must know how much money is available for them
if a person has a lack of mental capacity
The payment of their personal budget is not made directly to them.
Lack of mental capacity
Not being able to make reasoned decisions and understand information.
What does Riigs stand for?
Remain in own home when receiving care
Inclusion in community
Information and guidance improved
Gain and maintain control
Self esteem quality of life and socialisation is improved
