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| Bringing well-being and choice into everyday home care | | Author(s) | Charles Patmore |
| Journal title | Working with Older People, vol 10, issue 3, September 2006 |
| Pages | pp 24-27 |
| Keywords | Domiciliary services ; Commercial care ; Social Services Departments ; Consumer choice ; Social surveys. |
| Annotation | The White Paper, "Our health, our care, our say" (Cm 6737, January 2006) has "well-being" and customer-directed services as a theme that is repeated, but what does such rhetoric mean for everyday home care for older people? The author reports on "Flexible, person-centred home care for older people", a research study at the Social Policy Research Unit (SPRU) at the University of York, that indicated how well-being and choice could be promoted without individualised budgets. Furthermore, the suggested approach of this research by the author and colleagues could, by implication, lead to a smooth transition to individualised budgets. This article outlines the research methodology for the study; also three examples of how some staff were already empowered to promote well-being and choice: flexibility to use care time as a customer chooses; helping older people to buy valued services privately; and enthusiasm for older people's well-being. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-061107507 A |
| Classmark | N: PI: PF: WYC: 3F |
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