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What chance of a free for all?
- Author:
- ANDREWS Crispin
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 21.04.05, 2005, pp.32-33.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Personal care has been free in Scotland for nearly three years. Reports on what the major political parties are offering older people in England and Wales.
Crisis what crisis?
- Author:
- VALIOS Natalie
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 16.09.04, 2004, pp.34-35.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Discusses the provision of free personal care in Scotland. Examines the figures and refutes the argument that the personal care policy is financially doomed. Argues that the cost of free personal care will be a small percentage of the total cost of care.
Frequently asked questions: care for older people
- Author:
- ROBSON Kathleen
- Publisher:
- Scotland. Scottish Parliament
- Publication year:
- 2009
- Pagination:
- 15p.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
This briefing is intended to assist MSPs and their staff in dealing with issues around care for older people that frequently arise in the context of their constituency caseload. Topics covered include personal and nursing care payments, local authority charging procedures, waiting lists for care, and selling homes to pay for care.
Continuing care: taking out protection
- Author:
- HALL Michael
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 26.10.95, 1995, p.5.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Forecasters predict rising numbers of older people who will be less able to pay for their own care. Argues that soon there will not be enough money to meet care bills.
Homing in on free personal care
- Authors:
- BUSHNELL Jeremy, ROCHE Michael
- Publisher:
- Independent Age
- Publication year:
- 2019
- Pagination:
- 9
- Place of publication:
- London
This report outlines the reasons why free personal care can help provide the systemic change that social care needs. It shows the increasing numbers of older people who have had to sell their homes to pay for care and how the current deferred payments system is not working. It also shows how the introduction of free personal care can stop individuals from facing up to such a difficult decision in the first place and play a preventative role by helping an increased number of people to receive care at home. (Edited publisher abstract)
Understanding attitudes to paying for care amongst equity release Consumers: citizenship, solidarity and the ‘hardworking homeowner’
- Authors:
- OVERTON Lousie, O'MAHONY Lorna Fox
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Social Policy, 46(1), 2017, pp.49-67.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
- Place of publication:
- Cambridge
The importance of developing a system that is perceived to be ‘fair’ is a central element in debates about long-term care funding in the UK. It is therefore surprising that while previous research has established that older people tend to resent the idea of using housing equity, and other personal assets, it has often revealed little about the factors underpinning these attitudes or reflected on how they sit within a wider frame of social and political norms. Drawing on 60 semi-structured in-depth interviews with older home owners who have released equity from their homes, this paper explores why people feel that it is fair, or unfair, to require owners to use their housing equity to fund long-term care needs, once factors like reluctance to trade on the home, and mistrust of equity release products, have been excluded. While a small majority of our participants considered it unfair, a substantial minority thought it fair that they were required to use their accumulated housing equity to meet care needs. This distribution of attitudes enabled us to explore the reasons why participants held each view, and so reflect on the impact of pro-social and pro-individual norms in shaping attitudes towards intra-generational fairness and ideas about ‘responsible citizenship’. The analysis posits that the factors that shape attitudes toward using housing assets to pay for care, and their relationship to the wider rhetorical framework of asset accumulation, management and decumulation, have been misunderstood by policy makers. The implications of the findings for policies that seek to promote the development of a housing-asset based care funding system capable of attracting widespread support are discussed. (Edited publisher abstract)
A review of free personal and nursing care
- Author:
- AUDIT SCOTLAND
- Publisher:
- Audit Scotland
- Publication year:
- 2008
- Pagination:
- 66p.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
Key findings and recommendations covering free personal nursing care (FPNC) in Scotland are presented. The specific objectives of the study were to evaluate the robustness of financial planning, monitoring and reporting arrangements for FPNC at both a national and local level, to examine the current costs and funding allocations for FPNC across councils in Scotland, and to identify the financial impact of FPNC on older people, the Scottish Government and councils. The study involved an analysis of national data including demographics, older people’s services and financial information, a data survey of the 32 councils focusing on activity, financial, policy and practice information, focus groups with older people and care providers, interviews with staff in six councils, the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities (COSLA) and the Scottish Government, a survey of independent care home providers, and a review of a sample of care packages since 2002 in two councils.
Evaluation of free personal care
- Author:
- VESTRI Paolo
- Publisher:
- Scotland. Scottish Executive Social research
- Publication year:
- 2007
- Pagination:
- 6p.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
Main findings from research commissioned by the Scottish Executive to evaluate the operation and impact of free personal care (FPC) in Scotland are presented. The evaluation was carried out between February 2006 and January 2007 and was informed by a wide range of qualitative and quantitative evidence.
Evaluation of the operation and impact of free personal care
- Author:
- VESTRI Paolo
- Publisher:
- Scotland. Scottish Executive Social research
- Publication year:
- 2007
- Pagination:
- 127p.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
This evaluation of free personal care was commissioned by the Scottish Executive to provide information on its operation and impact and set out how the policy could be further developed to deliver cost efficient and high quality free personal care for older people in Scotland. The research examined the four key stages of the operation of free personal care: the application process, the assessment process, the provision of free personal care and care services, and reviewing and monitoring free personal care. A broad range of research methods were used including a literature review, interviews with a range of national stakeholders, analysis of information on policy and practice from all Scottish local authorities, a survey of all Scottish local authorities, a 1000 person telephone survey and a postal survey of 4,000 older people and carers, six in-depth case studies involving interviews with over 100 local authority staff and 134 users and carers, a survey of independent sector care homes and care home providers and a stakeholder workshop. The vast majority of people receiving free personal care under the Community Care and Health (Scotland) Act 2002 have received their payments or personal care services without undue delay or complication. The process through which an individual moves through the community care system from first contact with the local authority (referral) through to assessment, and delivery of services (or payments) is well defined within the legislation and guidance that governs the delivery of community care, and the system works well in the vast majority of cases.
Re-writing the rules on financial assessment
- Author:
- CHRISTIE Bryan
- Journal article citation:
- Care and Health Magazine, 19, September 2002, pp.14-15.
- Publisher:
- Care and Health
Reports on a dispute over a £40,000 house in a Scottish village which may have far reaching consequences for the ability of local authorities to charge elderly people for their long term care.