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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.
A fair deal for care in older age?: public attitudes towards the funding of long-term care
- Authors:
- DEEMING Chris, KEEN Justin
- Journal article citation:
- Policy and Politics, 31(4), October 2003, pp.431-446.
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
The government has made nursing care in England and Wales free, while continuing to means-test personal care.This policy contrasts with the recommendation for free personal care made by the Royal Commission on Long-term Care in 1999.This article reports on a survey of attitudes towards financing care in old age from a representative sample of men and women in England aged 25 years and over.The majority of people feel that the state should finance care for older people.The article discusses the extent to which this is consistent with the government's position and the competing notions of equity that recent debate entails
Paying for old age: can people on lower incomes afford domiciliary care costs?
- Authors:
- DEEMING Chris, KEEN Justin
- Journal article citation:
- Social Policy and Administration, 36(5), October 2002, pp.465-481.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
The Labour government has made it clear that it will not countenance major changes in the financing of long-term care for older people in England and Wales. One consequence is that people on modest retirement incomes will continue to have to pay for elements of their care in their own homes. The government also implicitly assumes that people of working age, on average and below-average earnings, are expected to save in order to pay for long-term care. However, evidence about individuals' willingness and ability to save and to pay for long-term care is scanty. Accordingly, an interview survey of 100 people-today's and tomorrow's pensioners-was undertaken in June and July 2000. They were asked detailed questions about their financial circumstances, and about their ability to pay more towards their own health and social care costs, now and in the future. The results suggest that today's pensioners on average and lower incomes are experiencing difficulties in paying for care services in their own homes. Tomorrow's pensioners who are currently on average and lower incomes will struggle to pay for care services in their own homes.