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A Fair deal for older people: public views on the funding of long-term care
- Author:
- DEEMING Chris
- Publisher:
- King's Fund
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 42p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
This report publishes the results of an opinion poll comissioned by the King's Fund to look at the public's views of current and proposed policies regarding the funding of long-term care. The poll was carried out six months after the government had published its response to the recommendations of the Royal Commission on Long-Term Care and were introducing a Health and Social Care Bill which included recommendations on the funding of long-term personal care. The two main recommendations of the Commission were that both nursing care and personal care should be free for all who need it. The first of these recommendations was accepted by the Government but the second was rejected. The opinion poll reports that two thirds of people questioned supported the Governments decision on nursing care but that three out of five people disagreed with the Government's decision to continue means-testing people for personal care. This result marks a change in public attitudes towards the funding of long-term care. Earlier surveys showed that only 25 percent of people in england and Wales supported the idea of free nursing and personal care. This number has now more than doubled and suggests that people are unhappy with the Government's policies and that a rethink may be needed.
Commissioning home care for older people
- Author:
- SOCIAL CARE INSTITUTE FOR EXCELLENCE
- Publisher:
- Social Care Institute for Excellence
- Publication year:
- 2014
This guide captures the latest research findings on this important and emerging area of social care. Sections include: What older people want from home care services; What is good home care?; The commissioning cycle and Funding and costs. It also provides some practice examples of good work in this area. The guide is aimed at health and social care commissioners of home care services for older people with complex needs. Providers of these care services may also find it useful. (Edited publisher abstract)
Funding social care: what service users say
- Author:
- BERESFORD Peter
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 2010
- Pagination:
- 11p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- York
The views of a diverse range of social care service users on current proposals for funding social care are presented. The National Service User 2009 consultation, which involved a diverse range of older and working age people from different parts of the UK was reported in the government’s 2009 Green Paper ‘Shaping the Future of Care Together’ and is frequently quoted in this report. With sections entitled, ‘the demand for social care’, ‘options for funding social care – the three government options’, ‘failure to ensure equity and independent living’, ‘strong support for universal disability benefits’, ‘social care and health’, ‘funding social care through general taxation’, ‘complexities of funding’, ‘the value base of the Green Paper’, ‘new funding proposals’ (Labour/Conservative), and ‘next steps - securing funding for social care, the importance of improved public debate and supporting service user involvement in the debate’, this paper addresses how social care can meet the expected increase in demand, especially from older people, how a fair, sustainable and high quality service should be funded and how care should be delivered.
Funding care: the changes that can make a real difference
- Author:
- COLLINS Sue
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Care Services Management, 4(1), October 2009, pp.40-48.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Based on a keynote conference presentation about funding long-term care presented in 2009, this paper by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation Empowerment Principal Policy and Public Affairs Manager looks at options for funding long-term care, including a shared approach to funding, and the Shaping the Future of Care Together green paper on adult social care. It discusses alternative methods of funding, including implementation of equity release to allow older homeowners to pay for home-based care services by deferring costs until their home is sold, raising the ceiling that dictates whether an individual in a care home receives support from a local authority, doubling the personal expenses allowance for people living in care homes supported by local authorities, and free personal care for more people. It also looks at Joseph Rowntree Housing Trust models showing ways of using capital to fund housing with care for older people, and at key issues from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation evidence base about housing with care for older people.
Can residents stop the great homes sell-off?
- Author:
- WINCHESTER Ruth
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 1.3.01, 2001, pp.10-11.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
The residential care sector for older people is in a state of upheaval as councils, faced by high costs, look to tender out provision to the private sector. This article looks at how residents are fighting to prevent such moves.
'User pays' and other approaches to the funding of long-term care for older people in Australia
- Authors:
- FINE Michael, CHALMERS Jenny
- Journal article citation:
- Ageing and Society, 20(1), January 2000, pp.5-32.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
It has been argued that without some system in which future generations of users are able to pay for their care cost of services for an increasingly large group of older people will be borne by a declining base of economically active younger people. Looks at the idea of a user pays approach to the financing of aged care and reviews this concept and its recent history in Australia. On the basis of a brief review of alternative funding systems, it also considers the potential of public and private insurance schemes to increase funding by potential service users and underwrite the long-term viability of funding for aged care services.
Social care in old age: more than a funding problem
- Author:
- BALDOCK John
- Journal article citation:
- Social Policy and Administration, 31(1), March 1997, pp.73-89.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
There is currently a debate about the future funding of long-term care for old people. Welcome as it is, there is a risk that the focus on finance will observe equally important questions about who should provide the care and what models of care should be chosen. Many years of research and innovation in the care of the elderly have shown that the effective and efficient provision of simple care services is very difficult to achieve. This article describes some essential characteristics of social care which make it unlikely that a solution to the funding problem will improve either the allocation or the outcomes of long-term care.
National neglect
- Author:
- DOBSON Roger
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 1.12.94, 1994, pp.16-17.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Community care funding is reaching crisis point and the cash shortfall has led to service cutbacks to elderly and disabled people. Lancashire and Gloucestershire have been particularly hit hard. Investigates how users are demonstrating against the drastic squeeze on their services.
Service profile: adult placement scheme
- Author:
- LEICESTERSHIRE. Social Services Department
- Publisher:
- Leicestershire. Social Services Department
- Publication year:
- 1990
- Pagination:
- 20p.,tables,diags.
- Place of publication:
- Leicester
Evaluation of a scheme for elderly, mentally handicapped and other vulnerable adults, providing both short and long term placements. Looks at funding, procedures, characteristics of service users, and views of carers and clients.
Caring for our future: progress report on funding reform: presented to Parliament by the Secretary of State for Health ... July 2012
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health
- Publisher:
- Stationery Office
- Publication year:
- 2012
- Pagination:
- 40p.
- Place of publication:
- London
The Commission on Funding of Care and Support was established by the Coalition Government to make recommendations on how to achieve an affordable and sustainable funding system for care and support for adults in England. This progress report sets out the Government's analysis of the Commission's recommendations (published in July 2011) and the proposed way forward on reform of how care and support is funded. It looks at the need for funding reform, stakeholder views on reform, the Commission's recommendations and how the Government is responding, the principles of funding reform, and the benefits and costs of the Commission's model. It reports that the Government supports the principles of the approach recommended by the Commission. The planned next steps include introduction of a universal system of deferred payments for residential care, a national eligibility threshold for adult care and support, a universal and authoritative source of national information about the health and care and support system, legislation to transform support for carers, and a framework for improved integration between health and care.