Personal budgets must be overhauled to ensure older people, particularly those with dementia, can benefit from them, the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services said today.
With councils working to a government target of having all eligible service users on personal budgets by April 2013, Adass warned that the current system was not flexible enough to give older people choice and control over their care and said safeguarding concerns needed to be addressed.
“We’ve done well to get a third of service users using them but those people have tended to be younger adults as there tends to be resistance and anxiety about personal budgets among older people," said Adass president Peter Hay.
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