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Paying for long-term care for older people in the UK
— modelling the costs and distributional effects of a range of options | | Corporate Author | Personal Social Services Research Unit - PSSRU, University of Kent; University of Essex; Nuffield Foundation |
| Publisher | PSSRU, University of Kent, Canterbury, October 2006 |
| Pages | unnumbered (PSSRU Research summary 40) |
| Source | PSSRU, Cornwallis Building, University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent CT2 7NF. http://www.PSSRU.ac.uk |
| Keywords | Services ; Domiciliary services ; Nursing homes ; Care homes ; Long term ; Costs [care] ; Public expenditure ; Mathematical models. |
| Annotation | Around one in two women and one in three men aged 65+ will require intensive long-term care in late old age. How this care is to be funded is an important issue, which continues to provoke lively debate, since it will affect many of us and our families. This summary presents the findings of a research study (same title) funded by the Nuffield Foundation (and published as PSSRI Discussion paper 2336, available on the PSSRU website). Raphael Wittenberg, Linda Pickard, Adelina Comas-Herrera, Derek King and Juliette Malley from the PSSRU, LSE Health and Social Care at the London School of Economics, Ruth Hancock from the University of Essex, and Ariadna Juarez-Garcia from the University of Birmingham used two simultaneous models to model the cost and distributional effects of a range of options for reforming the system for funding long-term care. The options examined included: changes to the capital limits in the means test; increases to the personal expenses allowance; a lifetime limit on private payments for care; and free personal care. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-070116217 P |
| Classmark | I: N: LHB: KW: 4Q: QDC: WN8: 3LM * |
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