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Don't mention the poor
- Author:
- RICKFORD Frances
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 13.7.00, 2000, p.25.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Governments initiatives on older people have avoided the central issue of poverty. The author asks whether the initiatives are mere window dressing or real attempts at delivering better services to older people.
Rights and risks: the implications of Cheshire County Council's policy and procedures on financing long term care
- Author:
- AGE CONCERN CHESHIRE
- Publisher:
- Age Concern
- Publication year:
- 1997
- Pagination:
- 24p.
- Place of publication:
- Northwich
Paper looking at the effects of Cheshire SSDs policy of financing long term care for older people and highlighting concerns that older people in Cheshire are entering long term care without a 'safety net'.
Entitlements and the elderly: protecting promises, recognizing reality
- Authors:
- MOON Marilyn, MULVEY Janemarie
- Publisher:
- Avebury
- Publication year:
- 1996
- Pagination:
- 191p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Aldershot
Analyses the impact on older Americans of various options that seek to better target the 3 major benefit entitlements affecting older people in the United States: social security, Medicare and Medicaid. Looks at the economic status of older people; presents detailed descriptions of the 3 entitlements, in particular in the context of long term care; and details approaches to entitlement reforms.
Social protection: European comparisons of expenditure, 2007 to 2013
- Author:
- CAROLAN Gerard
- Publisher:
- Office for National Statistics
- Publication year:
- 2015
- Pagination:
- 13
- Place of publication:
- London
An analysis of the UK social protection expenditure in comparison to the 28 European Union states together with Switzerland, Iceland, Norway, Turkey and Serbia. Social protection comprises the various benefits provided to households, usually by public bodies, to help with their needs, including old age, sickness, family and children, disability, housing and others. The paper shows that the UK spent £483 billion on social protection in 2013, equivalent to 28 per cent of GDP: nearly three quarters of social protection expenditure was on old age and sickness. Between 2008 and 2013, the number of male old age beneficiaries rose 16.0 per cent while the number of female old age beneficiaries fell by 0.2 per cent. In 2013, expenditure on disability social protection in the UK fell in real terms by £392 per recipient. In 2013, the UK maintained its position among the selected countries as the highest spender on housing social protection (£394 per capita). (Edited publisher abstract)
Securing good care for more people: options for reform
- Authors:
- HUMPHRIES Richard, FORDER Julien, FERNANDEZ Jose-Luis
- Publisher:
- King's Fund
- Publication year:
- 2010
- Pagination:
- 63p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
The purpose of this report was to: refresh and update The King’s Fund’s 2006 review Securing Good Care for Older People: Taking a long-term view using a dynamic micro-simulation model to provide new estimates of projected costs and benefits; to reflect new policy developments and the implications of political and financial uncertainty; and to assess the funding options set out in the Green Paper Shaping the Future of Care Together and how these compare to the funding options modeled in this report. The report reasserts the case for change. Trends and developments that have occurred since the 2006 review and the different circumstances in which the reform of social care funding and delivery must now be viewed are discussed. The results of a funding analysis are then reported. The analysis was applied to three funding options over the period 2015-2026: the existing system unreformed; free personal care (FPC); and a revised, less generous version of the 2006 review’s partnership model in which the state funds 50% of everyone’s care and support costs and matches every £2 contributed by the individual with a further £1. The analysis indicated that both FPC and the King’s Fund partnership model would help many more people than the existing system but at a higher cost. FPC involves the highest cost to the public purse without a commensurate improvement in outcomes. Attendance allowance is also discussed. The review recommends integrating support for care costs from Attendance Allowance into the care system to improve targeting of resources. The authors make several suggestions for reform to achieve more sustainable funding of care.
The future of local authority residential care
- Author:
- BRANSBURY Lynda
- Publisher:
- Local Government Information Unit
- Publication year:
- 1997
- Pagination:
- 14p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Short paper outlining some of the continuing pressures on local authorities to close residential care homes or transfer them to the independent sector; identifying recent political commitments on the future of residential care; explaining why retaining council run homes will contribute to community care objectives; considering the possible impact of imposing registration standards on local authority homes in the absence of a level financial playing field; and calling for immediate changes to benefits and capital finance to reduce the pressures and incentives that are forcing councils to divest themselves of their own homes.
Can we afford to grow older?: a perspective on the economics of aging
- Author:
- DISNEY Richard
- Publisher:
- MIT Press
- Publication year:
- 1996
- Pagination:
- 354p.,tables,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Cambridge, MA
Presents an up to date survey of the implications of population ageing in OECD countries relative to a range of specific interrelated issues including: social security schemes; employer pensions; educational attainment; wage growth and distribution; economic productivity; consumption; savings; retirement; and health care. Discusses policy issues around these.
Community care for older people: a comparative perspective
- Author:
- TESTER Susan
- Publisher:
- Macmillan
- Publication year:
- 1996
- Pagination:
- 225p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Basingstoke
Uses a wide definition of community care to explore the origins of policies on pensions and the financing of care, housing, health and welfare services, education and leisure for older people. Compares the ways in which such services are provided and funded in 6 countries. Identifies the key changes in the patterns of services and finds that outcomes of community care are unevenly distributed, that services are underprovided, that individuals and families are bearing greater responsibilities and costs of care, and that inequalities between social groups in access to care have increased. Concludes that a shift in the balance of political priorities in favour of humanitarianism rather than economic aims of community care is needed if integrated care for older people and carers is to be resourced and implemented effectively.