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Continuing to pay
— the consequences for family caregivers of an older person's admission to a care home | | Author(s) | Fay Wright |
| Journal title | Social Policy and Administration, vol 34, no 2, June 2000 |
| Pages | pp 191-205 |
| Keywords | Spouses as carers ; Children [offspring] as carers ; Expenditure [care] ; Admission [nursing homes] ; Admission [care homes] ; Social surveys. |
| Annotation | Although many older people enjoy good health until the last weeks or months of life, they are then more likely to experience both acute and chronic illness. This paper discusses reasons why caregiving in the community had ended for a sample of dependent older people, two-thirds of whom had dementia. Comparisons are made between the situation of a spouse caring for a partner, and a daughter or son caring for a parent in a separate household. Spouses in the study had sustained a greater burden before caregiving had collapsed, and were also less likely to have had support from the home care service. When caregiving in the community ended and the dependent person entered a care home, family caregivers themselves often had a financial price to pay. Currently, spouses have a legal liability to contribute to a partner's care costs, though this depends on a local authority's policies and on the social worker's financial assessment. Because of the UK's means-testing rules, a parent's assets - which might otherwise be inherited by children or grandchildren - have to be used to meet care home costs, which can be a cause for much resentment. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-000717216 A |
| Classmark | P6:SN: P6:SS: QD: LHB:QKH: KW:QKH: 3F |
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