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Older couples and long-term care: the financial implications of one spouse entering private or voluntary residential or nursing home care
- Authors:
- HANCOCK Ruth, WRIGHT Fay
- Journal article citation:
- Ageing and Society, 19(2), March 1999, pp.209-237.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
A minority of older people who move into long-term institutional care are married and have spouses who continue living in the community. This article uses data from the Family Expenditure Survey on the incomes of older married couples to examine the financial implications for couples of one spouse entering residential or nursing home care, taking into account local authority procedures for assessing residents' contributions to charges and Income Support rules as they apply to both spouse. It looks in particular at the consequences of alternative ways couples might share their incomes, and alternative treatments of such sharing by local authorities and the Department of Social Security.