“Think Local Act Personal welcomes the Alzheimer’s Society report Getting Personal – Making Personal Budgets work for People with Dementia and have already spoken to the Society about its implications.
“The report adds evidence to a key part of our recent report Personal Budgets: Taking Stock and Moving Forward that identified some groups are not yet sufficiently benefiting from personal budgets. A key line in the report is “The evidence shows that there are clear benefits to people with dementia and carers using direct payments, but that accessing and using them can also be a big burden” .
“The paper provides good ideas and approaches for improvement for councils and other organisations.
“Think Local Act Personal will shortly establish a national self-directed support forum to gather and share intelligence and good practice to promote improvement in the implementation of self-directed support. In doing this, we will work with the Alzheimer’s Society to identify and resolve obstacles faced by people with dementia and ensure their findings are well shared.
“We see it as a positive sign that Jeremy Hughes, CEO of Alzheimer’s Society has been appointed co-lead for the personalisation strand of the Caring for Our Future White Paper engagement exercise and are confident he will ensure that the needs of groups not fully benefiting both from personal budgets and wider approaches to personalisation will be heard.”
