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The quality of care services purchased by councils: 2010: technical report
- Author:
- CARE QUALITY COMMISSION
- Publisher:
- Care Quality Commission
- Publication year:
- 2010
- Pagination:
- 45p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Councils spend nearly £8 billion each year on residential care and home care, which is over 70% of all their expenditure on adult care services. In November 2009, all 152 councils in England provided the Care Quality Commission (CQC) with data on the number of their residents for whom they purchased care in care homes in the period April to September 2009. This report links the data supplied to data on quality ratings for each care home. In addition, the councils reported to CQC in November 2009 on 317,000 adults for whom they had arranged home care with registered agencies in a week in the 6 months to 30 September 2009. The report provides a detailed analysis of the findings of these council returns. The data shows some variation in the quality of services purchased by councils. Councils purchased care for 230,000 adults in care homes. Eighty-six percent of these adults were living in care homes rated good or excellent. The percentage was lower (82%) for those in homes offering nursing care for older people. Ninety-three percent of adults whose home care was arranged or purchased by their council received a service from a home care agency rated good or excellent. Comparisons of the quality of care arranged by councils between September 2008 and September 2009 show that the percentage of people receiving care from services rated good or excellent has improved for both care homes and home care.
Factors associated with long-stay nursing home admissions among the U.S. elderly population: comparison of logistic regression and the Cox proportional hazards model with policy implications for social work
- Authors:
- CAI Qian, SALMON J. Warren, RODGERS Mark E.
- Journal article citation:
- Social Work in Health Care, 48(2), February 2009, pp.154-168.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
Demographic shifts and rising health care costs mean that care for the elderly will become a great societal challenge. This study investigated key factors associated with long-stay nursing home (LSNH) admission among the U.S. elderly population. Two statistical methods, multivariable logistic regression and Cox proportional hazards model, were performed and compared. Secondary data analyses using four waves (1995, 1998, 2000, and 2002) of the Health Retirement Study (HRS) coupled with the Assets and Health Dynamics among the Oldest Old (AHEAD) surveys were conducted. A total of 5980 respondents with a mean age of 78 were included, and during the study period 9.9% of these became a LSNH resident. Older age, lower self-perceived health, worse instrumental activities of daily living, psychiatric problems, and living alone were found significantly associated with increased risk of LSNH admission. In contrast, being female, African American, or Hispanic, owning a home, and having lower level of cognitive impairment reduced the admission risk. The Cox model generally provided more precise parameter estimates than logistic regression. Logistic regression can provide a good approximation to the Cox model in identifying factors of LSNH admission, however, the Cox model gives more information on how soon the LSNH admission may happen. These analyses, based on two models, dually identified the factors associated with LSNH admission, and therefore the results discussed confidently provide implications for both public and private long-term care policies.
Vacancy monitoring in residential care homes and nursing homes: Scotland 2000
- Author:
- SCOTLAND. Scottish Executive
- Publisher:
- Scotland. Scottish Executive
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 14p.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
The purpose of this statistical release is to present information on occupancy rates and admissions and vacancies in residential care homes and nursing homes in Scotland. It contains provisional information only.
The probability of nursing home use over a lifetime in Australia
- Author:
- LIU Zhibin
- Journal article citation:
- International Journal of Social Welfare, 9(3), July 2000, pp.169-180.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
This article further develops the life table models used in the USA by taking advantage of the superior data available in Australia. The probabilities of nursing home use over a lifetime are estimated for various ages for men and women. The results show that over one-third of the members of a female birth cohort will eventually enter nursing homes for long-term care at least once. The corresponding probability for males is one in five. A woman at age 65 faces a probability as high as 39% of using a nursing home for permanent care before her death compared with 25% for a man at age 65.
Community care statistics 2000: residential personal social services for adults, England
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 65p.,tables.
- Place of publication:
- London
Personal social services local authority statistics: community care statistics; residential personal social services for adults; detailed statistics on residential and nursing care homes and local authority supported residents; England 1998
- Editor:
- STATON Roger
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- n.p.,tables.
- Place of publication:
- London
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Community care statistics 1997: residential personal social services for adults, England
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health
- Publication year:
- 1997
- Pagination:
- 38p.,tables.
- Place of publication:
- London
Provides statistical information on the adult residential and nursing care home market and on residential and nursing care placements funded by local authorities at 31 March 1997.
Residential care homes and nursing homes in Wales: 1994
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Welsh Office
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Welsh Office
- Publication year:
- 1995
- Pagination:
- 69p.,tables.
- Place of publication:
- Cardiff
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.
Statistics release: care homes, Scotland: March 2003
- Author:
- SCOTLAND. Scottish Executive National Statistics
- Publisher:
- Scotland. Scottish Executive National Statistics
- Publication year:
- 2004
- Pagination:
- 15p.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
The purpose of this Statistics Release is to present national figures for care homes for adults in Scotland. All figures relate to the 31st March 2003 and are provisional and, as such, subject to change. The final figures will be published in Scottish Community Care Statistics 2003. At 31st March 2003 there were 1,616 registered care homes providing 43,578 places to 39,208 residents. The number of registered places in care homes for older people has decreased by 1 per cent since 2002 from 37,149 to 36,829. The occupancy rate in these homes (the number of occupied or unavailable places) is 93 per cent.