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| Eligibility criteria for social services for older people in England | | Corporate Author | Personal Social Services Research Unit - PSSRU, University of Manchester; Age Concern England - ACE; Care Standards Committee, Continuing Care Conference (CCC) |
| Publisher | Age Concern England - ACE; Continuing Care Conference, London, 1997 |
| Pages | 8 pp (Research briefing) |
| Source | Public Affairs Dept., Age Concern England, Astral House, 1268 London Road, London SW16 4ER. |
| Keywords | Services ; Community care ; Needs [elderly] ; Evaluation ; Local Authority ; Social surveys ; England. |
| Annotation | Local authorities are required to design and implement eligibility criteria to decide for whom they will provide a range of community care services. However, following the implementation of the community care reforms in 1993 there has been concern that such criteria are variable, not always consistently interpreted and applied, or linked to the allocation of resources. This paper summarises a study of English local authority eligibility criteria in respect of services for older people. Findings indicate that eligibility criteria varied widely between different local authorities; few authorities used structured or standardised ways of evaluation; only 55% of authorities had linked their social care services with those set locally by health authorities for National Health Service (NHS) continuing health care services; eligibility criteria did not make an effective linkage between screening and assessment for services in care management arrangements; 64% of responding authorities had overall combined eligibility criteria for access to services, the rest had separate criteria for different services. |
| Accession Number | CPA-980203205 B |
| Classmark | I: PA: IK: 4C: PE: 3F: 82 |
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