Person centred planning
Person centred planning means understanding the lifestyle desired by the individual receiving care and helping him or her to achieve it. It is value-led, demands deep respect for the individual and aims to ensure that the service user will be included in his or her community. It is necessary to understand the true values of individuals and to ensure these values are recognised in their care plan.
The vision that will be described in the care plan is the individual’s vision and not the vision of the professionals or the system. Understanding an individual is never complete: people continuously change and therefore we believe that all care plans should be living processes, amended and updated daily if necessary.
Care planning will focus on elements such as:
- Finding out what is important to the service user and those people who care about him or her, and what outcomes and goals they wish to achieve
- Understanding how the service user can be supported in having a balance between happy and safe, whilst making the best use of available funding
- What aspirations the service user has
- What skills they have retained and would like to build upon
- How creative care and support can be achieved
- Supporting choice in key tasks
- Regaining control
- Enablement and safe risk taking
Care UK care plans focus on what is important to people in living their everyday lives: their desired routines, rituals, who they spend time with and their general pace of life.
We encourage our service users to participate in the planning of their care as much as possible, and feel that it is important to seek support from carers and relatives as well.
You can read a real-life case study about person centred planning by clicking here
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