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Attitudes towards long-term care for elderly people: evidence submitted to the health committee
- Authors:
- PARKER Gillian, CLARKE Harriet
- Publisher:
- University of Leicester. Nuffield Community Care Studies Unit
- Publication year:
- 1996
- Pagination:
- 50p
- Place of publication:
- Leicester
Much of the debate about the provision of long-term care for elderly people and who should be responsible for it has taken place in a vacuum of information about the options for different forms of provision, their costs, and their feasibility. Most importantly, reearchers know neither what the public at large believes to be the correct balance between the state, the family and the individual in relation to providing or paying for care for older people, nor if and how those beliefs are translated into action. It is this gap that this research is attempting to fill. This paper presents preliminary analysis of data collected during a national survey of attitudes and beliefs about long-term care in old age. This survey is the first stage of the project; the second stage will involve detailed interviews with a smaller sample of people and will explore their actual behaviour against the attitudes they expressed in the first stage.
The development of long-term care insurance in Britain
- Authors:
- PARKER Gillian, CLARKE Harriet
- Publisher:
- University of Leicester. Nuffield Community Care Studies Unit
- Publication year:
- 1995
- Pagination:
- 33p.
- Place of publication:
- Leicester
The long-term care insurance market literature presents this new product as an important financing mechanism enabling individuals to prepare for their own care needs in old age. For some, such provision can offer a level of protection to wealth and income and releases the family from the `burden’ of care, so offers peace of mind. However cost is often prohibitive and `already unwell’ individuals may find a policy difficult to obtain. The exclusion of particular conditions from policy coverage could also exclude policy holders from receipt of benefit.
Attitudes and behaviour towards financial planning for care in old age
- Authors:
- PARKER Gillian, CLARKE Harriet
- Publisher:
- University of Leicester. Nuffield Community Care Studies Unit
- Publication year:
- 1997
- Pagination:
- 81p.,tables,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Leicester
Research study based on a representative sample of men and women aged between twenty-five and seventy and focusing on attitudes and beliefs towards finance for care in old age. Relates findings to current debates about the role of the state and personal financial decision-making.
Will you still need me, will you still feed me? - Paying for care in old age
- Authors:
- PARKER Gillian, CLARKE Harriet
- Journal article citation:
- Social Policy and Administration, 31(2), June 1997, pp.119-135.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Examines the socio-economic, demographic and policy changes that are influencing the debate about providing good-quality support and outlines findings from current research on attitudes towards financial planning for care in old age. This shows that the majority of people feel that the state should provide or pay for care for older people, either through a means-tested system or one which provides some basic level of protection which people can choose to enhance through their own means. However, only a minority would be willing to pay themselves for this, either directly through increased taxation or indirectly through reduced prospects of inheritance of housing capital. Concludes with a discussion of the policy implications of these findings.