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| Self-funding residential care | | Author(s) | Margaret Richards |
| Journal title | Elder Law and Finance, vol 2, no 2, 2002 |
| Pages | pp 38-41 |
| Keywords | Admission [nursing homes] ; Admission [care homes] ; Owner occupied dwellings ; Charges ; Assets [elderly] ; Policy ; Local Authority ; Social surveys. |
| Annotation | A new study sponsored by the Nuffield Foundation, "Asset stripping: local authorities and older home owners paying for a care home place" (Policy Press, 2002), explores the experiences of older people who self-fund their residential or nursing care. This article outlines the scope of the research and key findings on: ceilings to care packages; the lack of needs assessment, impartial information or advice; inappropriate admissions; variation in contracts for privately funded residents; and disregarding the value of properties occupied by carers, such that self-funding residents are effectively subsidising local authority contract prices. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-020814202 A |
| Classmark | LHB:QKH: KW:QKH: KEA: QEJ: JD: QAD: PE: 3F |
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