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Financing long-term care: the crucial debate
- Author:
- LAING William
- Publisher:
- Age Concern
- Publication year:
- 1993
- Pagination:
- 176p.,tables,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Examines whether an equitable, efficient and affordable system for financing increasing volumes of long-term care for older people exists at present, and if not, what the policy options are for creating such a system. Sources of funds are described, from the means tested public system, to the range of financial products now being developed. The UK system of financing long-term care is compared with those adopted in other countries, and the merits and demerits of various tax and insurance regimes are considered.
Personal asset protection guarantee
- Author:
- LAING William
- Publisher:
- LaingBuisson
- Publication year:
- 2017
- Pagination:
- 28
- Place of publication:
- London
This discussion paper puts forward the Personal Asset Protection Guarantee (PAPG) as an alternative to the threshold and cap for sharing residential care costs between individuals and the state. As a starting point, some equity and efficiency downsides of the Dilnot solution are identified: geographically inequitable distribution of benefits; ‘pay or shift’ threat to the stability of the care home sector, especially in less affluent areas of England; and the complexity and cost of administering the lifetime care cost cap. It then proposes PAPGs as an alternative that would be more equitable and efficient, whilst achieving the same policy objectives as a combination of asset threshold extension and lifetime care cost cap. The PAPG would offer an initial assessment for individuals in need of residential care. Their eligibility for council-funded support would then be calculated in terms of the percentage of the individual's assets that has been spent down since the initial assessment. It estimates that the scheme would be guaranteed to keep approximately three-quarters of their personal assets. (Edited publisher abstract)
Strategic commissioning of long term care for older people: can we get more for less?
- Author:
- LAING William
- Publisher:
- LaingBuisson
- Publication year:
- 2014
- Pagination:
- 29
- Place of publication:
- London
This discussion paper analyses the state of the UK market in care services for older people in order to identify market failures and achievements in the area of both commissioning and in supply. The paper briefly outlines the development of the market from 1975 to 2014 and lists the key features of the social care market for older people today. It then looks at the successes and failures of the market, and the mismatch between public sector commissioners’ need to contain costs and providers’ need to earn an adequate return in order to sustain existing services and develop the new ones. The final section lists the features an efficiently functioning social care market should have and puts forward a new care commissioning strategy as a solution to current market failures. The strategy is founded on outcomes-based, long term contracts headed by a new group of professionals working for Social Care Maintenance Organisations (SCMOs). The model covers the whole care pathway from advice and guidance, home care and residential care. The paper then sets out the reasons why this model might be expected to deliver efficiency savings. (Edited publisher abstract)
Care of older people UK market report: 2013/14
- Editor:
- LAING William
- Publisher:
- Laing and Buisson
- Publication year:
- 2014
- Place of publication:
- London
- Edition:
- 26th ed.
This market report presents a fully revised and updated analysis of trends in the long term care sector in the UK. The contents of the report is organised in the following sections: the impact of demographic change; market size and trends; government policy and regulation; the structure of the care home industry; demand and supply; customer profiles, services and amenities; sources of finance and fees, costs and profits. Statistical tables and charts are included throughout. Highly relevant for independent providers, commissioners, regulators and policy makers. (Edited publisher abstract)
Care of elderly people: UK market survey 2011-12
- Editors:
- LAING William, (ed.)
- Publisher:
- Laing and Buisson
- Publication year:
- 2012
- Place of publication:
- London
- Edition:
- 24th ed.
This market report presents a fully revised and updated analysis of trends in the long term care sector in the UK. The contents of the report is organised in the following sections: the impact of demographic change; market size and trends; government policy and regulation; the structure of the care home industry; demand and supply; customer profiles, services and amenities; sources of finance and fees, costs and profits. Statistical tables and charts are included throughout. Highly relevant for independent providers, commissioners, regulators and policy makers.
Age of uncertainty
- Authors:
- SAPER Rupert, LAING William
- Journal article citation:
- Health Service Journal, 26.10.95, 1995, pp.22-25.
- Publisher:
- Emap Healthcare
An exclusive survey conducted by healthcare analysts Laing & Buisson, reveals little to reassure consumers in health authorities' draft eligibility criteria and policies for long-term care.