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Homing in on care: a review of home care services for older people
- Author:
- AUDIT SCOTLAND
- Publisher:
- Accounts Commission
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 64p.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
The Government’s community care policy is about enabling people to live as normally and as independently as possible. In practice this means that, wherever possible, people should be helped to continue living in their own homes, or in as homely a setting as possible, rather than in institutional care. Recent policy papers from the Scottish Executive require councils, which have lead responsibility for community care, to further develop home care services to provide a viable alternative to institutional care. Home care services are critical to the success of community care. They have developed over the past decade to cover not just the traditional ‘home help’ domestic tasks, like housework and shopping, but also to include personal care, like help with bathing and dressing. Twice as many older people receive home care services than residential or nursing home care. Around 20 million hours of home care each year are provided or purchased by Scottish local authorities for over 70,000 people, of whom 85% are aged 65 years and over. By contrast, around 35,000 older people are in residential or nursing homes. The demand for community care services in general, and home care services in particular, is likely to increase over the next decade due to a number of factors.
Homing in on care: a review of home care services for older people; executive summary
- Author:
- AUDIT SCOTLAND
- Publisher:
- Accounts Commission
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 14p.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
The Government’s community care policy is about enabling people to live as normally and as independently as possible. In practice this means that, wherever possible, people should be helped to continue living in their own homes, or in as homely a setting as possible, rather than in institutional care. Recent policy papers from the Scottish Executive require councils, which have lead responsibility for community care, to further develop home care services to provide a viable alternative to institutional care. Home care services are critical to the success of community care. They have developed over the past decade to cover not just the traditional ‘home help’ domestic tasks, like housework and shopping, but also to include personal care, like help with bathing and dressing. Twice as many older people receive home care services than residential or nursing home care. Around 20 million hours of home care each year are provided or purchased by Scottish local authorities for over 70,000 people, of whom 85% are aged 65 years and over. By contrast, around 35,000 older people are in residential or nursing homes. The demand for community care services in general, and home care services in particular, is likely to increase over the next decade due to a number of factors.