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Review of care products: key messages
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health
- Publisher:
- Department of Health
- Publication year:
- 2014
- Pagination:
- 4
- Place of publication:
- London
The Department of Health invited representatives of the financial services industry to conduct a review of the market of products to fund care. These reports have identified opportunities for development of financial care products and the problems they might face. This short report presents key messages from the financial services industry, which briefly outlines the types of plans those entering care (mainly aged 75+), the ‘semi-retired’, and those of working age should make. It suggests the sorts of “products” that could help with care costs, e.g. Equity Release; and that certain conditions are also needed to create consumer demand for such products to make provision for care, for example helping people to access good financial advice. The review was supported by 3 industry-led working groups that looked a: consumers and the marketplace, housing and equity, and pensions and insurance. (Edited publisher abstract)
Mapping the future of family care: receipt of informal care by older people with disabilities in England to 2032
- Authors:
- PICKARD Linda, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Social Policy and Society, 11(4), October 2012, pp.533-545.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
Today, in many economically developed countries, long-term care systems are reliant on informal care. However, in the context of population ageing, there are concerns about the future supply of informal care. This article reports on projections of informal care receipt by older people with disabilities from spouses and adult children to 2032 in England. The current projections show that the relative numbers of older people with disabilities who have a child will fall by 2032, and that the extent of informal care in future may be lower than previously estimated. The policy implications for England are discussed.
Long-term care for older people and EU Law: the position in England and Scotland
- Authors:
- HERVEY Tamara, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law, 34(1), March 2012, pp.105-124.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
The implications of EU law for UK healthcare provision have been tracked by the literature, and covered in EU legislation. However, long-term care for older people involves not only healthcare but also social care. This article examined to what extent, if at all, is the current legal position on long-term care for older people in England and Scotland potentially inconsistent with the UK's obligations in EU law? Drawing on empirical data gathered in early 2010 for a European Commission report, this article considers in detail how EU law might apply to the social care aspects of long-term care for older people in England and Scotland. It concludes that EU law is an important element of the long-term care policy context. Implications for practice are discussed.
Caps, opt-ins, opt outs: is England making progress in reforming care funding?
- Author:
- LLOYD James
- Publisher:
- Strategic Society Centre
- Publication year:
- 2012
- Pagination:
- 24p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This discussion paper provides a response to the government's recent progress report on care funding. The government’s report ‘Caring for our future: progress report on funding reform’, July 2012, set out the government's response to the recommendations of the Commission on Funding of Care and Support. In this document, the government accepts as the basis for reform the principle put forward by the Commission of financial protection through capped costs and an extended means test, but reveals that it will not make a decision on the capped cost model until the next Spending Review expected in late 2013. This response paper argues that the government's progress report effectively acknowledges that care funding reform could proceed on a cost-neutral basis for the Treasury, and not interfere with the government's deficit reduction strategy. However, the government fails to set out any of the options for paying for care funding reform and does not seek to use its report to inform a wider debate on this issue. This discussion paper suggests that progress toward care funding reform may occur in several ways: public acceptance of the difficult tax and spending decisions required to make the capped cost model cost-neutral for the Treasury; the implementation of a low-cost capped cost model; or the creation of a voluntary capped cost state-sponsored insurance scheme that becomes mandatory over time.
The impact of devolution: long-term care provision in the UK
- Author:
- BELL David
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 2010
- Pagination:
- 41p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- York
This report on long-term care provision policies, from a series on the impact of 10 years devolved government in the United Kingdom, considers the constraint that tax and benefit structure (control of which remains centrally within the Departmental Expenditure Limits (DEL) system), has on Scotland, Northern Ireland, Wales and England. The importance of having secondary social care, funded from Annually Managed Expenditure by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) and less bound to annual budgets than DEL, in minimising diversity of delivered care is discussed. The inability of devolved governments to steer DWP, due to weak intergovernmental relations, is highlighted and in section 2 Scottish attendance allowances and Welsh domiciliary care charges are contrasted. Section 3 details demand for care varies more within countries than between them, while section 4 highlights divergence in older people’s ability to pay. A current snapshot of care provision across the UK in section 5, is followed by a focus on free personal care, personalisation and charging in Section 6. Section 7 reiterates that policies can be constrained as well as enhanced by devolution. Other reports, in this series, detail area based regeneration, indicators of poverty and social exclusion, employment and employability and housing and homelessness.
Will Wanless inject hope?
- Author:
- SNELL Janet
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 13.04.06, 2006, pp.34-35.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
The social care sector in England has enthusiastically welcomed the Wanless report. The author discusses how much of it the government will adopt.
The £30bn question
- Author:
- GLASBY Jon
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 13.04.06, 2006, pp.36-37.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
This article explores how the Wanless review's findings are social care's best hope for future funding and why policy makers need to make it work.
Attitudes towards long-term care for elderly people: evidence submitted to the health committee
- Authors:
- PARKER Gillian, CLARKE Harriet
- Publisher:
- University of Leicester. Nuffield Community Care Studies Unit
- Publication year:
- 1996
- Pagination:
- 50p
- Place of publication:
- Leicester
Much of the debate about the provision of long-term care for elderly people and who should be responsible for it has taken place in a vacuum of information about the options for different forms of provision, their costs, and their feasibility. Most importantly, reearchers know neither what the public at large believes to be the correct balance between the state, the family and the individual in relation to providing or paying for care for older people, nor if and how those beliefs are translated into action. It is this gap that this research is attempting to fill. This paper presents preliminary analysis of data collected during a national survey of attitudes and beliefs about long-term care in old age. This survey is the first stage of the project; the second stage will involve detailed interviews with a smaller sample of people and will explore their actual behaviour against the attitudes they expressed in the first stage.
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.
Social care: forthcoming Green Paper on older people and parallel programme (England)
- Author:
- JARRETT Tim
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons Library
- Publication year:
- 2018
- Pagination:
- 30
- Place of publication:
- London
Briefing paper looking at the forthcoming Green Paper on social care for older people and parallel programme of work on social care for working age adults. It provides a background to the plans for a Green Paper and its confirmed contents, which will include: a lifetime cap on what people pay for social care, integration with health and others services, information on carers, workforce, and technological developments. The briefing also outlines the timetable to date and delays and signposts to a selection of commentaries on the proposed Green Paper. (Edited publisher abstract)