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Helen Sanderson , Gill Bailey with Lisa Martin , Making Individual Service Funds Work for People with Dementia Living in Care Homes: How it Works in Practice , Jessica Kingsley Publishers , London , 2014, 143 pp., pbk £18.99, ISBN 13: 978 1 84905 545 1 .
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Person-centred care is promoted as the preferred model of care for people with dementia in England (Department of Health 2009). One way to deliver person-centred care is through personal budgets. Personal budgets allow service users to buy their services themselves. The individual service fund (ISF) is where people use their personal budgets to buy their support from the service provider. It is seen as a practical vehicle to help deliver person-centred care in a range of settings (Department of Health 2010).
One of the key features of an ISF is that no specific task is predetermined. The service user is empowered to plan with the provider regarding what kind of support is needed and provided. It can be difficult to understand how this can be achieved when a person has advanced dementia. This book gives a clear account of how a person with dementia can be engaged in the process of planning services tailored to support what they want, or would have wanted.
The book aims...