Although I’ve not heard great deal about his directly, I am of the understanding that very soon, individuals will be given their own budgets for care and related equipment and be able to spend this how they see fit. I’m also hearing a lot of consistent criticism of this scheme and it all seems quite obvious. Where is the benefit in distributing budget in this way? I guess the outcome is that lots of individuals will buy equipment which only they will use. Then what? This seems a very unworkable plan to me which will deliver much poorer value for money and fragment the delivery of care. I’d really like people to get this concept under their skin and make a lot of noise about it if it is as rediculous as it appears to be. I suspect the only winner may be ebay.
Recent Posts
Self managed budgets
March 11th, 2010
Alistair Burns
March 11th, 2010
I’m pleased that the government has responded to the criticism of their success to date in delivering their dementia strategy. Clearly they have not admitted any short-comings directly, but thank goodness they’ve done something about it even so! Of course this is early days and I have not come across Alistair Burns before, (although we do have some connections with Manchester University – our own Dr Booth being an alumni) but I hope we see more activity than we have thus far. Maybe Gerry Robinson would have been a better choice? That’s probably unfair, but Gerry is a high-profile ‘mover and shaker’ who has proven skills and the passion to boot! There are probably lots of people we’d like to nominate……..but who wants to be in that particular hotseat and have to dance to the governments tune?
Dementia signage 2nd anniversary
March 11th, 2010
It’s exactly 2 years since the dementia signage designs became available to purchase. In that time we’ve gone from 0 to 1300 signs per month average (!) for the whole period!! Regarding memory boxes….frankly I’ve lost count.
Special offer success
January 26th, 2010
We’ve all been pleasantly surprised, nay astounded by the uptake of our recent special offers. The buy-one-get-one-free offer is coming to an end this Sunday and despite being hampered by the weather, christmas (bah humbug), and oh yes this recession thing (!) the number of signs, memory boxes, reminiscence images and toilet seats that have been shipped to homes throughout the UK has quadrupled during the offer period.
This is astounding but it throws up some really interesting information too! The key thing being that if we can keep prices down, more people will benefit. It also tells us the ‘community’ love our product if we make it affordable. We have taken this approach because we want people with dementia to have to have a better life by using our products, and all those people who have found the money to take advantage of our offer, obviously agree.
My inclination is to thank everyone who has purchased from Find and please tell us how you get on. As we own and manufacture most of our products, we can respond to feedback and use your information to improve the things we make. Ultimately again, the people we are aiming to help, will benefit from our collective efforts.
First Dementia Post
January 26th, 2010
At last, here’s the first post on the brand new find Dementia Blog. It’s been a long time coming but I guess this means we’ve definately arrived in the 21st century.
We’ve got lots to say about what we do and look forward to getting the most out of this unfamiliar medium. I’m sure we will learn quickly.
find Dementia Signage Systems is a specialist division of Multimount Ltd providing signs for dementia care environments.