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Evaluation and assessment of deferred payment agreements
- Authors:
- MAIR Mair, McLEOD Barry
- Publisher:
- Scotland. Scottish Government Social Research
- Publication year:
- 2008
- Pagination:
- 5p.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
This research was commissioned by the Scottish Executive (now the Scottish Government) to provide an assessment of the use of Deferred Payment Agreements for care home residents. Fieldwork was carried out between January and September 2007, and involved gathering the views and experiences of relatives of care home residents, older people in the community and local authority finance and front-line staff.
An evaluation and assessment of deferred payment agreements
- Authors:
- MAIR Mari, McLEOD Barry
- Publisher:
- Scotland. Scottish Government Social Research
- Publication year:
- 2008
- Pagination:
- 40p.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
Deferred Payment Agreements (DPA) were introduced in July 2002 under the Community Care and Health (Scotland) Act 2002. They were intended to extend the choice available to care home residents about how to fund their care. The primary aim of this research was to explore with care home residents and their relatives, their knowledge of, attitudes towards, and experiences of DPAs; to identify barriers and deterrents to applying for DPAs; and to identify potential for increasing uptake of DPAs. The research was based on 14 local authorities, and used qualitative methods to gather information from residents and their relatives, older people in the community and local authority officials.