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Informal care of the elderly in Scotland the UK
Author(s)	Rannia Leontaridi, David Bell
Corporate Author	Department of Economics, University of Stirling; Scottish Executive Central Research Unit
Journal title	Health and Community Care Research Findings, no 8, 2001
Publisher	Scottish Executive Central Research Unit, Edinburgh, 2001
Pages	4 pp
Source	Scottish Executive Central Research Unit, Room J1-0, Saughton House, Broomhouse Drive, Edinburgh EH11 3XA. cru.admin@scotland.gsi.gov.uk
Keywords	Informal care ; Services ; Social surveys ; Scotland.
Annotation	This report was commissioned to explore evidence on informal care for older people, and to assess the evidence on substitution between informal care in Scotland and the rest of the UK. Among the sources used to provide economic and descriptive analyses were the Family Resources Survey (FRS), the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) and the Scottish Household Survey (SHS). Given that provision in the informal care sector substantially exceeds that in the formal sector, a significant switch from informal to formal provision would significantly increase formal sector costs. (RH).
Accession Number	CPA-020130220 B
Classmark	P6: I: 3F: 9A
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