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Self-funded admissions to care homes
— a report of research carried out by the Personal Social Services Research Unit, University of Kent on behalf of the Department for Work and Pensions | | Author(s) | Ann Netten, Robin Darton, Lesley Curtis |
| Corporate Author | Personal Social Services Research Unit - PSSRU, University of Kent; Department for Work and Pensions - DWP |
| Publisher | Corporate Document Services, Leeds, 2002 |
| Pages | 172 pp (Department for Work and Pensions research report, no 159) |
| Source | Corporate Documents Services, 7 Eastgate, Leeds LS2 7LY. E-mail: orderline@corpdocs.co.uk |
| Keywords | Admission [care homes] ; Admission [nursing homes] ; Finance [care] ; Statistics [data] ; Social surveys. |
| Annotation | The findings are presented from a survey exploring the circumstances of older people who fund their own admissions into residential or nursing homes. The survey collected information about 921 new admissions to residential and nursing care in Great Britain between January 1999 and March 2000, spread across 220 nursing, residential and dual registered homes. The study aimed to establish whether self-funded people admitted to residential care differ significantly in terms of their financial assets and informal support from older people in private households, and the extent to which self-financed residents are admitted at levels of dependency that might have been maintained in the community. The study also investigated the process of admission; whether those with lower levels of dependency are admitted through choice or lack of access to appropriate alternatives; and factors associated with the choice of home. The report considers the level of receipt of non-means tested benefits, and self-funded residents' life expectancy. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-020114001 B |
| Classmark | KW:QKH: LHB:QKH: QC: 6C: 3F |
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