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Evaluating community care for elderly people — who gets how much of what service?
Author(s)	Bleddyn Davies, José Fernandez, Raymond Warburton
Corporate Author	Personal Social Services Research Unit - PSSRU, University of Kent
Journal title	PSSRU Bulletin, no 10, December 1996
Pages	pp 5-9
Keywords	Community care ; Domiciliary services ; Care homes ; Needs [elderly] ; Costs [care] ; Evaluation.
Annotation	The focus of the ECCEP (Evaluating Community Care for Elderly People) project is equity and efficiency in post-reform community care: who gets how much of what community service at what cost, and with what effect on whom. This research is being carried out in the same twelve small areas of ten local authorities as for the PSSRU's domiciliary report of 1984-89, 'Resources, needs and outcomes in community-based care'. This article presents preliminary results of the current longitudinal study, with statistical measures of costs to the social service department (SSD) and the community health service (CHS) by interval need and informal support. It also presents information on influences on who is allocated home care and who residential care, and the influence of need dimensions on initial care packages.
Accession Number	CPA-970421001 A
Classmark	PA: N: KW: IK: QDC: 4C
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