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A fair contract with older people?: a special study of people’s experiences when finding a care home
- Author:
- COMMISSION FOR SOCIAL CARE INSPECTION
- Publisher:
- Commission for Social Care Inspection
- Publication year:
- 2007
- Pagination:
- 96p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Whilst care homes are improving the information they give to prospective residents, advertised fees for places in the same care home can vary hugely, sometimes from £650 to £1,500 a week, without a clear explanation of why some people pay more than others and what their money will buy. The report also showed that sometimes people paying for their own care can subsidise those people paid for by the local council, where councils negotiate lower rates. In areas without enough care services to meet demand, even those people moving into care homes who are funded by the council can be asked to pay ‘top-up’ fees to cover higher charges – as many as 75% of homes in some areas required a ‘top-up’.
Selective vision
- Author:
- MITCHELL David
- Journal article citation:
- Care and Health Magazine, 19.10.04, 2004, pp.24-25.
- Publisher:
- Care and Health
The recent review of care services in Scotland by the Care Commission revealed widespread irregularities. Discusses the review findings. Looks in particular at unmet regulations, funding and practice issues.
Fees hike adds to operators' woes
- Author:
- CHEESMAN Chris
- Journal article citation:
- Caring Times, March 1997, p.9.
- Publisher:
- Hawker
Discusses how feelings are divided over the government's plan to increase inspection fees. Asks if it presents a minor cost or a major menace for care homes.
Care for the future
- Authors:
- TIDBALL Mike, ROBINSON James
- Journal article citation:
- Local Government Chronicle, 19.2.99, 1999, pp.16-17.
- Publisher:
- Emap Business
Looks at the current situation in care homes for the elderly, which the article argues, face a bleak future unless they take a new look at their services.
Achieving a better home life: establishing and maintaining quality in continuing care for older people
- Authors:
- AVEBURY Kine, et al
- Publisher:
- Centre for Policy on Ageing
- Publication year:
- 1997
- Pagination:
- 65p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Report designed to stimulate debate on how the code of practice detailed in the CPA publication 'A better home life: a code of good practice for residential and nursing home care' can be embraced to meet the changing continuing care needs for older people into the 21st century. Aimed at all those involved in providing or purchasing care. Topics covered include the level of quality older people should be able to expect when they go into care; the role of inspection in relation to maintaining standards; the dilemmas facing SSDs in fulfilling their responsibilities as purchasers of care; the relationship between quality and costs; and the broader issue of how society should pay for the continuing care of older people.
An army under siege
- Author:
- CERVI Bob
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 18.7.91, 1991, p.8.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Looks at concerns within SSD inspection units, and NAIRO about lack of staffing and financial resources to cope with the demands being placed up such units.
The Commission on Residential Care: a vision for care fit for the twenty-first century
- Authors:
- BURSTOW Paul, THE COMMISSION ON RESIDENTIAL CARE
- Publisher:
- DEMOS
- Publication year:
- 2014
- Pagination:
- 273
- Place of publication:
- London
The final report from the Commission on Residential Care, which was set up in July 2013 to explore the future of residential care in its broadest sense, from care homes to extra care villages and supported living, for older and disabled people. The Commission sets out a vision for housing with care in the twenty-first-century and outlines how existing housing with care should change to deliver this vision. The report draws on a range of evidence, including surveys, interviews and focus groups with experts, care staff, disabled and older people and members of the public; site visits, and two calls for evidence. Chapter 2 details the stories individuals to show how providing the right housing with care option can improve people's lives. Drawing on the findings from an extensive literature review and focus groups, Chapter 3 looks at what disabled and older people want from housing with care now, and how this might change in the future. Chapter 4 identifies key challenges to housing with care, which include: business models; staff recruitment, retention, training and wages; negative public perceptions of housing with care; confusion over terminology; pressures of demographic change; and increased expectations of the sector. Chapter 5 describes examples of housing with care that work to ensure people gain and maintain independence and autonomy. The final two chapters set out how the Commissioners believe the existing housing with care offer could change to deliver this vision across financial, operational, governance and cultural aspects of care. The Commission recommends a number of measures to embed good practice and challenge public perceptions. The include more accurate definition of ‘housing with care’ throughout government policy; greater co-location of care settings with other community services such as colleges; the expansion of CQC’s role in inspecting commissioning practices; and promoting excellence in the profession through the introduction of a license to practice and a living wage. (Edited publisher abstract)
Care staffing in care homes for older people
- Author:
- SOCIAL CARE ASSOCIATION
- Publisher:
- Residential Forum/Social Care Association
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 18p.; CD ROM.
- Place of publication:
- Surbiton
This document seeks to help providers of residential care for older people, registration and inspection staff and service users and their relatives, to determine whether sufficient staff are available in a care home to meet the assessed needs of service users. It also seeks to offer guidance as to what service users, their families and other stakeholders can reasonably expect as regards staffing arrangements.
Misplaced and forgotten: people with learning disabilities in residential services for older people
- Authors:
- THOMPSON David, WRIGHT Sarah
- Publisher:
- Mental Health Foundation
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 21p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
The reason why people with learning disabilities enter residential homes for older people is largely unrelated to their own ageing. Most people coming from living with family move because of their relative's ageing or death. Others move because of closure of services. The people with learning disabilities in the homes for older people lead very impoverished lives with few opportunities to get out. There are financial incentives for local authorities to use older people's services rather than developing a good quality learning disability provision. Until this addressed, the common practice of misplacing people with learning difficulties and then forgetting them will continue.
Regulation: how much does it cost?
- Authors:
- NETTEN Ann, FORDER Julien, KNIGHT Jane
- Journal article citation:
- Registered Homes and Services, 4(4), August 1999, pp.49-52.
Summarises the findings of research commissioned by the Department of Health to estimate the costs of regulating residential and nursing home care services for adults. The research focused on five types of regulatory activities: inspection, registration, dealing with complaints, enforcement and policy and practice development.