Launch of Let’s Get Personal report

Let’s get personal – launch of Alzheimer Scotland’s new report on personalised support for people with dementia and their families

Alzheimer Scotland’s important new report, Let’s get personal – personalisation and dementia by Lindsay Kinnaird, has now been published. The report demonstrates what can be achieved when people with dementia and their carers are given control over their own social care support.

This research shows that, when empowered to direct their own support, families effectively combine state resources around their own natural supports – creating truly personalised support. Our findings add weight to the Scottish Government’s drive towards self-directed support and point to a new way forward for dementia services.

Improving access to personalised support, so that people with dementia and their families can have genuine choice and control, is the key to achieving the best possible outcome from both state and personal resources. Scotland must change its methods of community-based dementia care – remaining static is not an option. We hope that this approach will be recognised by the forthcoming National Dementia Strategy and will be central to reshaping care in the future.

- Henry Simmons, Chief Executive, Alzheimer Scotland