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Public policy and private provisions
— changes in residential care from 1991 to 2001 | | Author(s) | Philip Haynes, Laura Banks, Susan Balloch |
| Journal title | Health & Social Care in the Community, vol 14, no 6, November 2006 |
| Pages | pp 499-507 |
| Source | www.blackwellpublishing.com/hsc |
| Keywords | Care homes ; Nursing homes ; Domiciliary services ; Census ; Regional ; Longitudinal surveys. |
| Annotation | Evidence from Census data for 1991 and 2001 on the incidence of residential care for adults has been used to examine changes in the number of care homes and their residents over the period. Local authority owned provision declined universally, while changes in private residential and nursing homes were far more varied. Some parts of Britain experienced a growth in the market, particularly Scotland. Regions which were traditionally linked with greater numbers of retired people in their populations declined in their private residential home markets (e.g. the South West and South East). Wales experienced a regional decline that was greater than most English regions. Using additional Department of Health (DH) data, it was possible to estimate which local authorities in England were exporting state-funded supported residents to homes outside their areas. Most of these authorities were in urban areas: the highest rates of exporting were the London boroughs. Political control and average property prices were explored as possible independent variables influencing the percentage rate of decline in homes in a local authority area. While it appears that Conservative controlled authorities experienced a more rapid decline in government-owned homes than those run by Labour, the results were not statistically significant, suggesting that local politics were not a key influence on the trend. Average property prices did not affect all areas of the country, but were found to have a negative and significant association with percentage rates of decline in care homes in both Wales and London. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-061213516 A |
| Classmark | KW: LHB: N: S4C: 5CP: 3J |
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