ABSTRACT
This chapter draws on a number of themes and considers the implications for professional practice and training. It speaks directly to practitioners in social work, social care and other care or community support professionals to uncover ways in which learning might be actually recognised, valued and promoted in their own day-to-day practice. The chapter relates this discussion to theories about the identity and knowledge construction of older people and how professional practice can continue to support shifts in the approaches used to deliver inclusive and quality services. The curriculum for professionals, in social work education, health and social care needs to foster new epistemologies and hermeneutics. At an organisational level, Making it Real has developed personalisation based on broader narratives of their local communities that actively plan to avoid or overcome crisis, and to focus on people within their natural environment or communities, rather than inside service and organisational boundaries.
