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| Discrimination against self-funding residents in long-term residential care in England | | Author(s) | Fay Wright |
| Journal title | Ageing and Society, vol 23, part 5, September 2003 |
| Pages | pp 603-624 |
| Keywords | Nursing homes ; Admission ; Admission [care homes] ; Charges ; Policy ; Social Services Departments ; Social surveys. |
| Annotation | This paper reports the findings of research funded by the Nuffield Foundation on older people paying the full costs of their long-term residential or nursing home care in England. The research had three stages: a national postal survey directed at senior finance officers in social services departments (SSDs); follow-up telephone interviews with a sample of them; and interviews in five case study areas. Those interviewed included social services staff, care home providers, self-funding residents and relatives. These self-funding residents were commonly relatively physically independent on admission to the care home. Despite central government directives that needs assessments should be available regardless of a person's means, it is a common policy to encourage older people in this situation to admit themselves directly to care homes without a needs assessment. Wide variation was found in local authority practice in respect to being prepared to make a contract with a care-home provider for older people able to meet the full costs of care. (KJ/RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-030922204 A |
| Classmark | LHB: QKH: KW:QKH: QEJ: QAD: PF: 3F |
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