The Law Commission recently recommended expanding direct payments to residential care, and the Department of Health has chosen to explore this by supporting the development of ‘test sites’ in partnership with local authorities. Read more »
A new Alzheimer’s Society report ‘Getting personal? Making personal budgets work for people with dementia’, is calling for the personal budget system to be adapted to meet the specific needs of people with dementia. Read more »
Community Care recently published a review of research by Alzheimer Scotland to investigate the experience of personalisation in the form of direct payments by people with dementia in Scotland. Read more »