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| Long term care : a submission from Help the Aged to the Royal Commission on the Funding of Long Term Care for the Elderly | | Corporate Author | Help the Aged |
| Publisher | Help the Aged, London, 1998 |
| Pages | 12 pp |
| Source | Help the Aged, St James's Walk, Clerkenwell Green, London EC1R 0BE. |
| Keywords | Organisation of care ; Services ; Health services ; Long term ; Needs [elderly] ; Finance [care] ; Help the Aged ; Social policy. |
| Annotation | In this submission to the Royal Commission on the Funding of Long Term Care for the Elderly, Help the Aged presents a needs-led approach, as this should be the point from which a strategy is developed. Ways of assessing and managing the need for care is explored, with an emphasis on empowering and informing people, as well as looking at independence rather than dependency management. HTA comments on the muddled boundaries between health and social care: it supports the judgement of the Rowntree Inquiry that accommodation and food are personal issues; however, the rest of care should be collective. On how to pay for care now, HTA calls for a revamped, variable National Insurance, equivalent to a hypothecated tax, which should not be prohibitive; HTA calls for more research on this. As for how to pay for future care, HTA reluctantly concedes that a more privately (or personally) funded care regime may have to be considered; however, concerns are expressed about such a system's administration. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-980623207 P |
| Classmark | P: I: L: 4Q: IK: QC: PYH: TM2 * |
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