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Growing old in the countryside
— resource allocation systems and rural areas | | Corporate Author | Help the Aged; Rural Development Commission |
| Publisher | Help the Aged, London, 1996 |
| Pages | 42 pp |
| Source | Help the Aged, St James's Walk, London EClR 0BE. |
| Keywords | Services ; Rural areas ; Grant allocation ; Social surveys. |
| Annotation | People aged 65 and over account for a larger proportion of rural population, at 19.4%, than in other parts of England where this group represents 15.8%. Research commissioned by Help the Aged and the Rural Development Commission was carried out by Rita Hale & Associates, to determine the extent to which resource allocation systems used to distribute public funds to different parts of the country have changed. This report uses the government's own statistics to demonstrate how much less money is made available to older people in rural areas than for their counterparts elsewhere. It examines evidence on social services and community care, the availability of services for older people, health services, and housing. The findings demonstrate that smaller proportions of older people are expected to need social services help in rural areas than elsewhere; and that local authorities in rural areas are expected to spend significantly less of social services for older people than other types of authority. This would seem to be at variance with recommendations made in the 1995 White Paper, "Rural England: a nation committed to a living countryside". (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-000905204 B |
| Classmark | I: RL: QCG: 3F |
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