Dementia Care Mapping (DCM) is used internationally as an approach to practice development and continuous quality improvement. To date it has been used mostly in formal care settings. DCM is now being developed and tested for use in supported living facilities, in line with the emphasis in the National Dementia Strategy on improving quality of care in all settings. DCM SL is a new initiative to be launched by Bradford University Dementia Group and Lincolnshire County Council Home Support Service.

A Wellness Recovery Action Plan (WRAP) is described as being "a system for monitoring, reducing and eliminating uncomfortable or dangerous physical symptoms and distressing emotional feelings or experiences" (Mary Ellen Copeland 2005). Recovery means different things to different people and no two individual's journey of recovery will be the same. It is a key element in a range of wellness approaches and is part of a development of recovery-orientated services that are now well underway in the county and nationally. The Resilience/ Recovery Approach and WRAP approach is aimed at the empowerment of the individual and the community.

An Individual Budget is designed to provide individuals who currently receive services greater choice and control over their support arrangements. The Government is committed to piloting individual budgets with a view to rolling them out nationally should they prove successful. The individual budgets pilot project is a cross Government initiative led by the Department of Health working closely with the Department for Work and Pensions and the Department of Communities and Local Government.

During 2006/07 the Care Services Improvement Partnership (CSIP)commissioned training events that would provide people who managed their own support or had done so on behalf of a friend or relative with some basic training in order for them to assist local authorities to implement Self Directed Support (SDS) by telling their stories and supporting others