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Capital offences: variations in local authority treatment of older home owners entering residential care
— a summary of some key research findings | | Author(s) | Fay Wright |
| Corporate Author | Age Concern Institute of Gerontology - ACIOG, King's College London; Nuffield Foundation |
| Publisher | Age Concern Institute of Gerontology, ACIOG, London, 2000 |
| Pages | 10 pp |
| Source | ACIOG, King's College London, Waterloo Bridge Wing, Franklin-Wilkins Building, Waterloo Road, London SE1 8WA. |
| Keywords | Admission [nursing homes] ; Admission [care homes] ; Owner occupied dwellings ; Charges ; Assets [elderly] ; Policy ; Local Authority. |
| Annotation | A small proportion of residents in nursing homes in Great Britain (some 8.4%) are not means-tested, and have their fees met by the NHS; but a majority are. Unless there is a decline in the proportion of older people entering care homes, the issue of using one's home to meet care home charges will continue to be of concern for older people and their relatives. The research on which this publication is based was funded as part of the Nuffield Foundation's Older People and Their Families programme. Findings are based on postal and telephone surveys of finance officers with social services departments (SSDs) in England and Wales. The main findings concern: variations in local authority community care packages; local variations in assessing financial situations; older home owners failing to obtain needs assessments; variations in obtaining a local authority contract; problems with entering a care home without a local authority contract; local variations in the treatment of a carer remaining at home; a strained relationship between local authorities and independent sector providers; and a lack of impartial advice for frail older home owners. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-001218202 B |
| Classmark | LHB:QKH: KW:QKH: KEA: QEJ: JD: QAD: PE |
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