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Care costs : the public's view
— [BBC's Care Calculator website survey] | | Author(s) | Martin Knapp, José-Luis Fernández, Teresa Poole |
| Journal title | Community Care, issue 1771, 21 May 2009 |
| Pages | pp 24-25 |
| Source | www.communitycare.co.uk |
| Keywords | Services ; Finance [care] ; Social Services Departments ; Public opinion ; Information technology ; Social surveys. |
| Annotation | The BBC Care Calculator was created for the BBC by the Personal Social Services Research Unit (PSSRU), and comprises three elements: an interactive web tool giving a broad picture of different levels of social care support; a "care map" providing links to social service departments (SSDs); and a questionnaire collecting views on how adult social care should be funded. The authors analysed the responses of 9388 people who used at least one of the interactive tools provided by the BBC Care Calculator in early 2008. They indicate how the Care Calculator website reveals that many people are over-optimistic when it comes to care costs and who pays for them: 55% of respondents said that the level of support was worse than they expected; 40% that the level of support was about right; and only 6% that the level of support was better than expected. Results of the questionnaire are likely to feature in public debate following the Green Paper. (The website is at http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/youandyours/careintheu... (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-090527207 A |
| Classmark | I: QC: PF: U5: UVB: 3F * |
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