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Residential or nursing home care?
— the appropriateness of placement decisions | | Author(s) | Ann Netten, Robin Darton, Andrew Bebbington |
| Journal title | Ageing and Society, vol 21, part 1, January 2001 |
| Pages | pp 3-24 |
| Keywords | Admission [care homes] ; Admission [nursing homes] ; Social Services Departments ; Policy ; Social surveys. |
| Annotation | Statistics show considerable variation between local authorities in Great Britain, in the proportions of supported residents placed in nursing and residential care. This raises the question of whether this is due to variations in demand, supply, or policy. This paper uses data from a national longitudinal survey of 18 local authorities and 2,544 local authority supported residents who had been admitted to residential and nursing home care. It examines the pattern of admissions, the characteristics of people admitted, and the relationship between these characteristics and admissions to residential or nursing home care. Characteristics of the individual explained placement of over 80% of admissions. Supply factors were statistically significant but did not improve the explanatory power of the model. Survival among those admitted to a type of care that was not predicted by the model, suggested that some unmeasured aspects of prognosis may account for some of the residual variation in placements. Overall, the results indicate a reasonably high level of consistency between authorities in nursing home placement decisions. (KJ/RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-010405202 A |
| Classmark | KW:QKH: LHB:QKH: PF: QAD: 3F |
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