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| The prevalence and dynamics of social care receipt | | Author(s) | Rowena Crawford, George Stoye |
| Corporate Author | Institute for Fiscal Studies - IFS |
| Publisher | Institute for Fiscal Studies, London, February 2017 |
| Pages | 69 pp |
| Source | https://www.ifs.org.uk/uploads/publications/comms/R125_The... |
| Keywords | Services ; Community care ; Usage [services] ; Quantitative studies ; England. |
| Annotation | The long-term care needs of the older population are increasingly important issues for policymakers and society as a whole. This report uses data for 2014-2015 from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA), a large-scale survey of people aged 50+ living in England, to examine the prevalence of social care and the changes to the needs and care receipt of individuals aged 65+ across time and between different birth cohorts. Specifically, it describes for a given point in time, who receives help, what type of help is received, how many hours of help are received from different sources, and the role of local authorities and private finance. The authors consider how the receipt of care and assistance differs across different date-of-birth cohorts; the characteristics associated both with the new receipt of assistance and with the end of assistance; and the potential implications in the context of an ageing population. They find some evidence of later generations having reduced care needs (which has fed through into lower prevalence of help with particular activities for these cohorts). While the role of family (particularly partners) in care provision is acknowledged, changes over time in family composition will need to be considered when thinking about the extent to which informal care will meet future needs. Appendices give further information on the ELSA data, describe the potential need for care among the older population, and provide additional tables. This report was funded by the Health Foundation, and also received co-funding from the the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Centre for the Microeconomic Analysis of Public Policy (CPP). (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-170505003 B |
| Classmark | I: PA: QLD: 3DQ: 82 |
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