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| Without a care? | | Corporate Author | Local Government Association - LGA |
| Publisher | Local Government Association, London, 2006 |
| Pages | 19 pp |
| Source | Local Government Association, Local Government House, Smith Square, London SW1P 3HZ. E-mail: info@lga.gov.uk Website: www.lga.gov.uk |
| Keywords | Services ; Domiciliary services ; Local Authority ; Finance [care] ; Demography ; Reports. |
| Annotation | Local authorities in England provide social care to more than 1.2 million older people leaving hospital, who are in residential and nursing homes, or who need help to live at home. This report draws attention to local authorities' financial difficulties in maintaining provision, and the emergence of a substantial gap between the rising expectations of an ageing population and of society as a whole. A serious public debate is needed around the growing needs of an ageing population and how society is going to meet them and pay for them. As part of the LGA's Fair Care campaign, this report seeks to encourage that debate, by exposing the gap between expectations and reality. The report includes research by Ipsos MORI commissioned by the LGA, to explore this gulf between individual expectations and reality. A second report, to be published in 2007, sets out how the vision for social care can become a reality, if government is committed to shifting resources from acute to preventative care. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-070125003 B |
| Classmark | I: N: PE: QC: S8: 6K |
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