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Do we have the means? — [funding and provision of adult services]
Author(s)	Andrew Mickel
Journal title	Community Care, issue 1743, 16 October 2008
Pages	pp 28-29
Source	http://www.communitycare.co.uk
Keywords	Community care ; Domiciliary services ; Needs [elderly] ; Finance [care] ; Social policy ; England.
Annotation	In 1999, the Royal Commission on Long-Term Care for the Elderly recommended that the state should pay for all long-term personal care. This article comments that much of the discussion on the reform of adult services is about funding, but that we need to work out what provision should be paid for. Free personal care in Scotland is proving problematical: when local authorities run out of money, it becomes a rationed system. Help the Aged suggests an entitlement to a basic care home bed; and in research for the Department of Health (DH), Caroline Glendinning (University of York is looking at social care reforms overseas. (RH).
Accession Number	CPA-081022211 A
Classmark	PA: N: IK: QC: TM2: 82 *
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