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Gill Bailey - Making Individual Service Funds Work for People with Dementia Living in Care Homes: How it Works in Practice - 9781849055451 - V9781849055451
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Making Individual Service Funds Work for People with Dementia Living in Care Homes: How it Works in Practice

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Description for Making Individual Service Funds Work for People with Dementia Living in Care Homes: How it Works in Practice Paperback. Through clear practical examples, this book demonstrates how Individual Service Funds can dramatically improve the quality of life of people with dementia living in care homes, showing what works and what doesn't, how to deal with difficulties and setbacks and describing the person-centred planning tools needed to implement the approach. Num Pages: 144 pages, 18 black and white figures. BIC Classification: 1DBK; JKSG; MJND. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 9. Weight in Grams: 264.

Dispelling the myths about how personalisation works for people with dementia living in care homes, this book demonstrates how to introduce Individual Service Funds (ISFs), what works and what doesn't, and how to deal with difficulties and setbacks.

Individual Service Funds are one way that people living with dementia can have a personal budget. The authors explain how they went about introducing the principles of ISFs to people living with dementia in a large care home in Stockport, without using any additional funding. They describe the person-centred practices used and the involvement of the council, commissioners, staff and families. ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Condition
New
Number of Pages
144
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781849055451
SKU
V9781849055451
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-10

About Gill Bailey
Helen Sanderson is CEO of Helen Sanderson Associates (HSA) and Director Emeritus of the International Community for Person-Centred Practices. She has been closely involved in the development of person-centred thinking and planning in the UK over the last fifteen years. HSA's partnership with Borough Care Ltd. and Stockport Council was a runner up in the National Dementia Awards 2012 in ... Read more

Reviews for Making Individual Service Funds Work for People with Dementia Living in Care Homes: How it Works in Practice
This book is packed full of stories that illustrate the outcomes for people that can result from deploying an ISF model. It focuses on the outstanding work that has been done at Bruce Lodge, a large care home for people with dementia now arranged as 43 separate ISFs, with every resident able to control a number of hours of support ... Read more

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