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Social care for older people
— home truths | | Author(s) | Richard Humphries, Ruth Thorlby, Holly Holder, Patrick Hall, Anna Charles |
| Corporate Author | King's Fund; Nuffield Trust |
| Publisher | The King's Fund; Nuffield Trust, London, September 2016 |
| Pages | 96 pp |
| Source | http://www.nuffieldtrust.org.uk/publications/socia... |
| Keywords | Services ; Health services ; Local Authority ; Costs [care] ; Public expenditure cuts ; Case studies ; England. |
| Annotation | King's Fund and Nuffield Trust researchers look at the current state of social care services for older people (age 65+) in England, through a combination of national data and interviews with local authorities, NHS and private providers, Healthwatch and other groups. This report examines the impact of cuts in local authority spending on social care providers and on older people, their families and carers. It considers the implications for the social care market (e.g. recruitment and retention, the National Living Wage, and risks of provider failure), and the extent to which availability of NHS primary care, community nursing and acute services have affected care needs. The Care Act 2014 has created new demands and expectations, but funding has not kept pace: there is little room for local authorities to make further savings, and most will soon be unable to meet basic statutory duties. The authors suggest three strategies for older people's social care over the next five years: achieving more with fewer resources (e.g. by better commissioning and integrated care); establishing a more explicit policy framework, making it clear that individual and families have primary responsibility for funding care; and undertaking long-term reform of funding: reliance on additional private funding is unlikely to be sufficient or equitable. This report complements a report commissioned by the Richmond Group of Charities, 'Real lives: listening to the voices of people who use social care'. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-160916002 E |
| Classmark | I: L: PE: QDC: WN8:5YD: 69P: 82 |
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