CRESC | Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change 6 WHY WE NEED SOCIAL INNOVATION IN HOME CARE FOR OLDER PEOPLE 5 Table 2: The UK Government’s Approach to Public Service Reform (2006) The strategy of market citizenship in home care In the strategy of market citizenship in home care, the concept of personalisation provides the overarching policy goal for social care and then personal budgets and. [...] A model of bio maintenance underlies this definition of the care assistant’s tasks: the needs of the old person are represented in a reductive quasi physical way which abstracts from all the values and social interactions which make independent living worthwhile: getting dressed and ready for the day is after all only a means to the end of having visitors or going out shopping or to the pub of an. [...] It would be altogether more interesting to use accounting knowledge as way of understanding the range of variation and the drivers of cost and return; and to set all that in a broader understanding of the limits on domiciliary care quality inherent in paying for tasks and the branch business model. [...] It is not a case of ‘discovering’ the cost of provision but exploring how different ways of providing care have different cost profiles (based on the numbers and composition of the care workforce); and how these relate to the experience of being cared-for and of being a carer Finding the point of intervention: the role for LA initiative 51 When we analysed residential of care for older people in a. [...] What are the pros and cons in specific cases and how might these relate to particular kinds of care needs? How do we identify different kinds of transitions and breaks with the idea of the one career from independent living to residential home? The answers to these questions, and the further questions they raise, open up a potentially varied and bespoke range of services that may cater more effect.
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