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Older People - personalisation
Updated on 12/10/2010
Services for older people are sometimes criticized for treating all older people as if they have identical needs and wishes. Increasingly policy and practice is responding to the fact that as people age they continue to have individual and unique needs and circumstances. The resources listed below relate to the ways in which housing related services can reflect this, including those that increase control over financial resources.
- Shared ownership and shared equity: reducing the risks of home-ownership? This Viewpoint by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation argues that shared ownership and shared equity schemes could reduce the risks associated with home-ownership. It argues that shared ownership and shared...
- Extra Care Housing and Personal Budgets This Housing LIN Workshop Report describes the scenarios, and identifies a set of key questions and issues, aided by the feedback from a recent workshop on the subject, hosted by the South East and London...
- Can equity release help older home-owners improve their quality of life? The Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) have produced this Solutions document and believe that equity release can be a common-sense, affordable solution for a significant number of older people who own...
- Guidance on direct payments for community care, services for carers and children's services: England 2009 The aim of this DH guidance is to assist local councils in making direct payments. Together with the Annexes, it also provides guidance on how local councils might manage and administer direct payments....
- A guide to getting direct payments from your council: a route to independent living This guide contains information on direct payments updated in 2009, under the provisions contained in the Health and Social Care Act 2001, as amended by the Health and Social Care Act 2008. This guide...
- Aspiration Age - Delivering capital solutions to promote greater choice and independence for older people Funded by an Innovation and Good Practice (IGP) Grant and the Department of Health Care Service Improvement Partnership (CSIP), the Aspiration Age project aims to maximise the choice and control that...
- Individual Budgets, Micro-Commissioning and Extra Care Housing The Housing LIN Viewpoint No 13 raises concerns about the potential damage to Extra Care housing and outcomes for residents, of the blanket application of individual budgets to commission the care and...
- Rainy Days, Silver Linings This Housing LIN Report looks at attitudes towards home equity release for care services and the products currently available on the market. It also looks at the potential for using home equity in this...
- Older people services & individual budgets Housing LIN Report - This paper describes how Individual Budgets for older people have been implemented by national pilot sites. Individual budgets are very relevant to housing because they can be used...
- Personal Choice in Sheltered/Retirement Housing - Workshop Report (September 2008) Published by Sussex Gerontology Network, December 2008 Report by Professor Peter Lloyd (Sussex Gerontology Network) on the workshop held at the University of Sussex in Brighton on Friday 26 th September...
- Adding more than value - inventive equity based financial products Published by hact this report describes two innovative equity release schemes established in Wessex and London to enable older people to continue living in their own homes. Brief case studies are included,...
- The Outcomes Oriented Approach and Older People Housing LIN Viewpoint No 11 - Summary of research on the outcomes valued by older people and lessons learned from authorities developing outcomes-focused services for older people in England and Wales....
- Dignity in Care online guide Produced by the Social Care Institute for Excellence this online guide relates to policy and practice in all care settings that maintains a person's self respect. It provides information for service...
- Building Choices: personal budgets and older peoples housing, broadening the debate Published by Housing 21 this is a summary of the main issues discussed at a stakeholder workshop, in late 2007, that explored the implications of Personal Budgets for older people's housing. The personalisation...
There is a separate area of this website that contains information about personalisation for all age groups and types of need.
