Personalization and Community Care: A Case Study of the British System

Abstract

Issue Title: Aging in Community

In the United Kingdom, personalisation services are developing as a social policy response to user demands for more tailored, effective and flexible forms of health and social care support. This process is being implemented under the personalization which is also seen as a vehicle for promoting service user rights through increasing participation, empowerment and control while also promoting self-restraint by having users manage the costs of their health and social care. This paper reviews the background to the emergence of this policy shift, assesses the existing research evidence for personalization albeit limited and identifies themes for future policy research in this area.[PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]