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Recent trends in life expectancy at older ages: update to 2014
- Author:
- PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND
- Publisher:
- Public Health England
- Publication year:
- 2016
- Pagination:
- 29
- Place of publication:
- London
A summary of recent trends in life expectancy among those aged 65 and over in England, in the English regions and local authorities. The report shows that the overall upward trend in life expectancy at all older ages continues. Life expectancy at older ages in England is now the highest on record for all the age and sex groups studied, except for females aged 85, for whom it is the same as it was in 2011. The report shows however, that despite this overall picture of improvement, calculated life expectancy for older people in some parts of the country did not increase or fell. At English local authority level there are significant variations in the trend in life expectancy at older age for which there is no apparent explanation. The report also includes trends in life expectancy in the European Union. (Edited publisher abstract)
Say hello, wave goodbye
- Author:
- SHORT Mike
- Publisher:
- Care Sector Innovations
- Publication year:
- 2016
- Pagination:
- 8
- Place of publication:
- Worthing
Short report, produced for the National Care Forum, which analyses the number of care home beds operated by the not profit sector in the first half of 2016. The data is taken from the CQC registers, and focuses on care homes providing accommodation for the 65 plus age group, ignoring small units of 9 beds or less. It reports on numbers of beds in the not-for-profit sector compared to the market as a whole, new and lost beds due to care home openings and closures, change in supply by region, and openings and closures by care home type (dementia, residential, and nursing care). It finds that there has been a reduction in the number of not-for-profit beds, which corresponds to trends in the social care sector across England as a whole. It also found major variations by region and by type of care offered. As a whole the not-for-profit sector shows a shift towards residential rather than nursing beds, with the total market moving in the opposite direction. (Edited publisher abstract)
Domiciliary care services for adults in Northern Ireland (2016)
- Author:
- NORTHERN IRELAND. Department of Health. Information and Analysis Directorate
- Publisher:
- Northern Ireland. Department of Health
- Publication year:
- 2016
- Pagination:
- 59
- Place of publication:
- Belfast
Summarises statistical information collected from health and social care trusts on adults receiving domiciliary care services from the statutory and independent sectors during a survey week in September. It details information on the numbers of clients receiving domiciliary care, visits, contact hours and intensive domiciliary care provision. Key findings reported include that HSC Trusts provided domiciliary care services for 23,873 clients, 3 per cent more than during the survey week in 2015. Of the 436,174 domiciliary care visits, 31 per cent were provided from the statutory sector and 69 per cent from the independent sector. In relation to length of visit, 50 per cent of all domiciliary care visits were between 16 and 30 minutes long, and 29 per cent of visits were 15 minutes of less. (Edited publisher abstract)
Suicide statistics report 2016: including data for 2012-2014
- Author:
- SCOWCROFT Elizabeth
- Publisher:
- Samaritans
- Publication year:
- 2016
- Pagination:
- 44
- Place of publication:
- London
A collation of suicide statistics for the UK, England, Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland using information available from the official statistics bodies for the years 2012-2014. The document provides data and a description of the suicide rates in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland, identifying trends and including breakdowns by age group. It also provides details about how to use suicide data and the differences between countries’ ways of producing them. It reports that there were 6,581 suicides in the UK and Republic of Ireland, in 2014. The figures suggest that rates of suicide in men are decreasing and female rates are increasing, although men remain more than three times more likely to take their own lives than women across the UK and Republic of Ireland. (Edited publisher abstract)
Community care statistics, social services activity, England, 2015-16
- Author:
- NHS DIGITAL
- Publisher:
- NHS Digital
- Publication year:
- 2016
- Pagination:
- 21
- Place of publication:
- Leeds
This is a report on the social care activity of Councils with Adult Social Services Responsibilities (CASSRs) in England between 1st April 2015 and 31st March 2016. It contains aggregate information mainly taken from council administrative systems used to record the process of assessing eligibility to state funded social care and providing services where people are eligible. This is the second year of the SALT (Short and Long Term) collection and councils were provided with the opportunity to revise their 2014-15 data; as such, some data has been updated from last year. The report shows that there were 1,811,000 requests for support from new clients, which had reached the stage of having a known outcome to that request during the reporting period. 28 per cent of these were from clients aged 18-64, with the remaining 72 per cent from clients aged 65 and over. There were 245,000 completed instances of Short Term Support to Maximise Independence, for new and existing clients during the reporting period. There were 873,000 clients receiving long term support during the reporting period. The report also reveals that there were 387,000 carers in contact with the council, of whom 314,000 (81 per cent) received direct support. There were also 57,000 instances of respite or other support delivered to the cared-for person. A third of carers in contact with the council (131,000) did not receive a review or assessment during the year. Over half the carers in contact with the council (53 per cent) are aged 18-64 and nine per cent (35,000 carers) are aged over 85. (Edited publisher abstract)
Hate crime report: 2014/2015 and 2015/16
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Crown Prosecution Service
- Publisher:
- Crown Prosecution Service
- Publication year:
- 2016
- Pagination:
- 58
- Place of publication:
- London
Examines the Crown Prosecution Service performance in prosecuting the hate crimes between April 2014 and March 2016. These include: racist and religious hate crime; homophobic and transphobic hate crime; disability hate crime; stirring up hatred; and crimes against older people. The report shows that in 2015/16 the CPS completed 15,442 hate crime prosecutions, the highest number achieved to date. The conviction rate across all strands of hate crime increased slightly from 82.9 per cent in 2014/15 to 83.2 per cent in 2015/16. Sentence uplifts increased from 11.8 per cent in 2014/15 to 33.8 per cent in 2015/16, the highest proportion recorded to date. Specifically, the CPS completed: 13,032 prosecutions for racially and religiously aggravated hate crime, an increase of 1.9 per cent on the previous year; 1,469 prosecutions for homophobic and transphobic crime, an increase of 15 per cent on the previous year; 941 prosecutions for disability hate crime, an increase of 41.3 per cent on the previous year; and 3,759 prosecutions for crimes against older people, an increase of 1.8 per cent on the previous year. (Edited publisher abstract)
Domiciliary care services for adults in Northern Ireland (2015)
- Author:
- NORTHERN IRELAND. Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety
- Publisher:
- Northern Ireland. Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety. Community Information Branch
- Publication year:
- 2016
- Pagination:
- 60
- Place of publication:
- Belfast
Summarises information collected from Health and Social Care (HSC) Trusts on adults receiving domiciliary care services from the statutory and independent sectors during a survey week in September 2015. It details information on the numbers of clients receiving domiciliary care, visits, contact hours and intensive domiciliary care provision. The results reported include that approximately 321,987 domiciliary care visits were provided by HSC Trusts, 4 per cent less than the number during the survey week in 2014. Of these visits 34 per cent were provided by the statutory sector and 66 per cent by the independent sector. A total of 6,635 clients received a domiciliary care visit lasting 15 minutes or less, almost three in ten (29 per cent) of all clients receiving domiciliary care. (Edited publisher abstract)
Statistics on community care for adults in Northern Ireland 2015-2016
- Author:
- NORTHERN IRELAND. Department of Health
- Publisher:
- Northern Ireland. Department of Health
- Publication year:
- 2016
- Pagination:
- 92
- Place of publication:
- Belfast
This report presents information on a range of community activity gathered from health and social care (HSC) trusts including contacts with HSC trusts, care packages in effect, meals on wheels services, residential and nursing accommodation and day care registrations. Community care describes the wide range of services and support which enable individuals to live in their own home or in community settings. It is designed to maintain and promote the independence and well-being of disabled and older people, and has as its overriding objective the aim to enable people to live as full a life as possible, in whatever setting best suits their needs. The report shows that between 1 April 2015 and 31 March 2016, 29,935 persons were in contact with HSC Trusts in Northern Ireland, a one per cent decrease on the same period last year and 10 per cent increase since the same period four years ago. 40 per cent of persons in contact were aged 65 and over. (Edited publisher abstract)
English Housing Survey: adaptations and accessibility report, 2014-15
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department for Communities and Local Government
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department for Communities and Local Government
- Publication year:
- 2016
- Pagination:
- 32
- Place of publication:
- London
Presents the findings from the 2014-15 English Housing Survey, covering the circumstances of households that had a person/s with a long-term limiting illness or disability that required them to have adaptations in their home, including whether these households had the adaptation they require and the suitability of their home. These findings are provided by tenure (owner occupier, private renter, local authority and housing association) and the age of the person with the long-term limiting disability. The survey report also looks at the accessibility of housing stock by examining the prevalence of nine accessibility features assessed by the English Housing Survey. It compares the prevalence of these accessibility features in homes built before 2001 and from 2001 onwards, when new building regulations started to have an impact. Main findings reported include that approximately 1.9 million households in England had one or more people with a long-term limiting illness or disability that required adaptations to their home, no change from the previous survey carried out in 2011-12. The four most common adaptations that households needed were grab hand rails inside the home, bathing aids, specialist toilet seats, and a shower to replace a bath. Over half of the households that required adaptations in their home already had them installed (55 percent), a slight improvement since 2011-12 (51 percent). Regarding accessibility, less than one in ten homes in England had all four main accessibility features that provide visitability to most people, including wheelchair users (level access to the entrance, a flush threshold, sufficiently wide doorsets and circulation space, and a toilet at entrance level). (Edited publisher abstract)
The state of the nation's housing: an ICL-UK factpack
- Author:
- INTERNATIONAL LONGEVITY CENTRE UK
- Publisher:
- International Longevity Centre UK
- Publication year:
- 2016
- Pagination:
- 24
- Place of publication:
- London
Drawing on an analysis of statistics and data from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing and the English Housing Survey, this report looks at housing market in the context of an ageing population. It aims help future planning through the development of a better understanding of the current state of UK housing and anticipating the drivers of change. The report presents figures on the current housing market, with differences in supply and demand; looks at the quality of UK housing, including levels of overcrowding and under-occupancy; and at the future forecast of housing to meet population needs. The report highlights the increasing numbers of older people who will require housing adaptations in the future. It also finds a lack of specialist retirement and extra care homes in England, and estimates a gap of 160,000 homes by 2030 based on current trends. The report then sets out five priorities to ensure that the housing market in England will be fit for the future: investment in the housing needs of older people; greater planning by central government to meet local needs; supporting future affordability and suitability of rented accommodation; ensuring enough homes have effective home adaptations; and new purpose-built housing stock to meet the needs of an older population. (Edited publisher abstract)