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| Time to sort out how we pay for long-term care | | Author(s) | Christopher Kelly |
| Corporate Author | Joseph Rowntree Foundation - JRF |
| Journal title | Search, no 45, February 2007 |
| Publisher | Joseph Rowntree Foundation - JRF, February 2007 |
| Pages | pp 30-33 |
| Source | http://www.jrf.org.uk |
| Keywords | Services ; Health services ; Long term ; Finance [care]. |
| Annotation | This report highlights the need for more clarity about funding long-term care, which our welfare state was never envisaged to fund. There are some 300,000 older people in care homes, of whom only about 20,000 have their fees paid by the National Health Service (NHS). The rest have to use most of their own housing capital and pension income to pay for care before receiving help from local authorities. The NHS pays only a contribution to nursing elements of care home fees. This situation it is argued is untenable and "has raised ever more obvious difficulties and resentment": there must be a "clear-cut, common system of assessing needs". The Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) has concluded that the present funding system is unfair, incoherent and inadequate to meet future needs. Three costed proposals for the short term have been suggested in various JRF reports. Further work by JRF will be in partnership with the King's Fund, supported by Age Concern and Help the Aged to test consumer policy solutions for the funding of long-term care for older people. Also, lessons learned from Hartrigg Oaks, the first continuing care retirement community in the UK are being taken forward in two new Extracare schemes, Hartfields in Hartlepool and Plaxton Court in Scarborough. (KJ). |
| Accession Number | CPA-070508234 A |
| Classmark | I: L: 4Q: QC |
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