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Asset stripping
— local authorities and older homeowners paying for a care home place | | Author(s) | Fay Wright |
| Publisher | Policy Press, Bristol, 2002 |
| Pages | 40 pp |
| Source | Marston Book Services, PO Box 269, Abingdon, Oxon 0X14 4YN. Email: direct.orders@marston.co.uk |
| Keywords | Admission [nursing homes] ; Admission [care homes] ; Owner occupied dwellings ; Charges ; Assets [elderly] ; Policy ; Local Authority ; Social surveys. |
| Annotation | About one in three long-term older residential and nursing home residents meet their own care costs, for which most will have sold their homes to raise the necessary capital. This report is based on a national survey of English and Welsh local authorities, case studies, and interviews with care home providers, self-funding residents and their relatives. It indicates the wide variation in local authority policies and practices, in particular, the use of strategies that discourage older people with assets over the upper capital limit (currently £18,500) from receiving a needs assessment on alternatives. The report describes conflicts between local authorities and independent sector care home providers; raises questions about the well-being of frail older residents in the current market situation; and questions the lack of impartial advice on alternatives to care home admission or on different types of care homes. The Nuffield Foundation funded this research project under a special grant making programme, "Older People and their Families". (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-020410002 B |
| Classmark | LHB:QKH: KW:QKH: KEA: QEJ: JD: QAD: PE: 3F |
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