Being informed, making choices

Resources looking at how people can be supported to become informed and make choices about their area, their care and their lives.

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Information and advice

How and where to get the best information and advice to help people make their own choices.

Person-centred care

Person-centred care moves away from professionals deciding what is best for a patient or service user, and places the person at the centre, as an expert of their own experience.

Strengths-based approaches

Information on what a strengths-based approach is and what elements 'strength' refers to.

News

New practice example about how H4All Wellbeing Service is using the Patient Activation Measure (PAM) tool to proactively identify and support older people to be empowered to self-manage and participate in their own care planning and health and wellbeing.

Prevention in social care

What it means, the policy context, role for commissioners and practitioners and the evidence base.

H4All wellbeing service

Practice example about how H4All Wellbeing Service is using the Patient Activation Measure (PAM) tool

Cafe society. A fresh approach

Alex Hoskyn, founder of the Chatty Café Scheme, guest blogs for SCIE

Moving Memory

Practice example about how the Moving Memory Dance Theatre Company is challenging perceived notions of age and ageing.

Chatty Cafe Scheme

Practice example about how the Chatty Cafe Scheme is helping to tackle loneliness by bringing people of all ages together

Oomph! Wellness

Practice example about how Oomph! Wellness is supporting staff to get older adults active and combat growing levels of social isolation

Tackling loneliness and isolation

A report for local authority commissioners. With blog from Dame Esther Rantzen

LAUGH research project

Practice example about a research project to develop highly personalised, playful objects for people with advanced dementia

KOMP

Practice example about how KOMP, designed by No Isolation is helping older people stay connected with their families

Carers in Wales: support available

A new series of practice examples that aim to stimulate discussion about the models of support available to carers in Wales.

Homeshare pilot programme

SCIE commissioned the evaluation of a pilot project and worked with various partners

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Total Transformation of care, including 13 blogs from loneliness to home care

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