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The inclusion of a person's home in the financial assessment to pay for long-term care
— draft proposal for Members' Bill to abolish the inclusion ...: a consultation paper | | Author(s) | John Swinburne, Arthur Midwinter |
| Corporate Author | Scottish Parliament |
| Publisher | John Swinburne, MSP, Scottish Parliament, Edinburgh, October 2005 |
| Pages | 26 pp |
| Source | John Swinburne, MSP, The Scottish Parliament, Edinburgh EH99 1SP. E-mail: John.Swinburne.msp@scottish.parliament.uk |
| Keywords | Admission [nursing homes] ; Admission [care homes] ; Charges ; Assets [elderly] ; Owner occupied dwellings ; Statutes ; Scotland. |
| Annotation | The Royal Commission for Long-term Care of the Elderly considered removing the domestic home from all assessment of capital in matters of older people paying for their long-term care. In responding to the Royal Commission's recommendations, the Scottish Executive acknowledged that "one of the great worries facing older people is that of selling their home to pay for care". John Swinburne MSP intends to introduce a Bill in the Scottish Parliament to abolish inclusion of a person's home in the financial assessment to pay for long-term care, and seeks views (by 12 January 2006) as part of the consultation process. Arthur Midwinter of the Institute of Public Accounting Research, University of Edinburgh was commissioned to provide an analysis of the financial implications and to outline how residential care for older people in Scotland is currently funded. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-051026502 B |
| Classmark | LHB:QKH: KW:QKH: QEJ: JD: KEA: 6P: 9A |
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