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Restricted means for the future
- Author:
- HENWOOD Melanie
- Journal article citation:
- Family Policy, June 1993, p.6.
Uncertainty remains about who is - or who should be - responsible for the costs of long term care for elderly and disabled people. Only a minority of older people are in a position to benefit from private insurance. While the central policy questions about financing long term care remain unanswered the latest arrangements for community care may be doomed to further reorganisation under funding pressure.
Community care: a report
- Author:
- THOMAS Mark
- Publisher:
- West Midlands Health Service Monitoring Unit
- Publication year:
- 1993
- Pagination:
- 29p.,tables,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Birmingham
Report focusing primarily on community care for older people. Gives an overview of the changes that took place from April 1993 and discusses the likely difficulties that local authorities will face in attempting to meet the stated objectives of the legislation. Part 2 looks at the future prospects for long term care of elderly people, and part 3 at financing.
Financing long-term care: the crucial debate
- Author:
- LAING William
- Publisher:
- Age Concern
- Publication year:
- 1993
- Pagination:
- 176p.,tables,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Examines whether an equitable, efficient and affordable system for financing increasing volumes of long-term care for older people exists at present, and if not, what the policy options are for creating such a system. Sources of funds are described, from the means tested public system, to the range of financial products now being developed. The UK system of financing long-term care is compared with those adopted in other countries, and the merits and demerits of various tax and insurance regimes are considered.
Who foots the bill
- Author:
- CHAMBERLAIN Linda
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 2.9.93, 1993, pp.16-17.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Discusses the confusion over funding of nursing home patients; whether people that have been discharged into the community are still entitled to social security benefits to pay their nursing home fees or whether the NHS is responsible.
Cash versus care
- Author:
- BURGESS Paul
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 6.5.93, 1993, p.29.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Problems of arranging care for elderly people in their own home or in private residential accommodation exist when there is an emphasis on who pays what. Examines the dilemma in the light of new legislation.
Home economics
- Author:
- BURGESS Paul
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 22.4.93, 1993, p.9.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
From this month, social workers have to advise clients entering residential care on benefit changes. Shows what costs are involved.
Key task 2: residential and nursing homes
- Author:
- HENWOOD Melanie
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 21.1.93, 1993, p.17.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Identifies some of the major outstanding difficulties in the transfer of funds and responsibilities for residential care.
Anchor care team: an appraisal
- Authors:
- GIBBS Ian, WRIGHT Ken
- Publisher:
- Anchor Housing Trust
- Publication year:
- 1993
- Pagination:
- 36p.,tables.
- Place of publication:
- Oxford
An appraisal of the work of the Anchor Care Team working in a sheltered housing scheme in Newcastle. Includes an appendix on the Guttman Scaling Technique for assessing older people.
Survey of nursing homes in the English counties
- Authors:
- HENRY Jennifer, et al
- Publisher:
- Association of County Councils
- Publication year:
- 1993
- Pagination:
- 38p.,tables,diags.
- Place of publication:
- London
Survey which aimed to provide information on current and discharged residents of nursing homes, on their length of stay, and type of funding they were receiving. 306 private nursing homes in England were surveyed.
Diamond rings and bathtime
- Author:
- RICKFORD Frances
- Journal article citation:
- Social Work Today, 21.1.93, 1993, p.15,17.
- Publisher:
- British Association of Social Workers
Elderly people are being forced into family or residential care - at great human and financial cost. Examines the steady shift to means testing.