This webinar will look at the learning from the Life Changes Trust’s Individual Awards Scheme and how this learning can be applied more broadly to the implementation of personal budgets for people with dementia and unpaid carers.

Adequate financial resources can mean the difference between living well with dementia or struggling to cope with living with dementia. Providing someone with a relatively small amount of money and the choice and control over how to spend it can have a big impact on them and their family.

At this event, you will hear about:

• the learning from an evaluation of the Individual Awards Scheme funded by the Trust. The scheme provided people living with dementia and unpaid carers with grants of up to £500 to spend on something that mattered to them or would make life better

• how unpaid carers have been using self-directed support during Covid-19.

You will also hear from a family in Orkney about how they have used self-directed support to improve their quality of life.

About the Life Changes Trust

The Life Changes Trust received a spend-out endowment of £50 million from the National Lottery Community Fund in 2013. We fund a broad range of work that aims to transform the lives of people living with dementia, unpaid carers of people with dementia and young people with care experience in Scotland. We are committed to putting people at the heart of everything that we do.