Abstract
Background:Personalisation in social care services has become a feature of the delivery of long-term care for disabled people in many developed welfare states.Aim:Scotland has used the devolution of health and social care powers to develop a personalisation scheme (known as ‘Self-directed Support’). The authors apply a theoretical and empirical framework to understand the experience of contemporary disabled users of personalised services.Methods:The authors use a Scottish data set of six focus groups and a survey of 126 disabled people and family carers.Results:The data showed that flexible funding and the ability to provide services that cross agency boundaries were instrumental in moving towards equitable outcomes.Conclusions:Although there are clear policy and practice barriers to inter-agency working in personalised care services, the evidence suggests that it is worth investing in overcoming these barriers for disabled people and family carers.
Publisher
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Subject
Political Science and International Relations,Sociology and Political Science
Cited by
3 articles.
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