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The last refuge: a survey of residential institutions and homes for the aged in England and Wales
- Author:
- TOWNSEND Peter
- Publisher:
- Routledge
- Publication year:
- 1962
- Pagination:
- 567p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Length of stay in care homes
- Authors:
- FORDER Julien, FERNANDEZ Jose-Luis
- Publisher:
- Personal Social Services Research Unit
- Publication year:
- 2011
- Pagination:
- 28p.
- Place of publication:
- Canterbury
Care home placements constitute the majority (57%) of net council spending in England on social care for older people. Information about the expected length of stay for people admitted to a care home is important for predicting lifetime costs. This study investigates the length of stay of care home residents by drawing on information about all 11,565 residents that died in Bupa care homes in the period Nov 2008 to May 2010. Residents of the 305 Bupa homes are largely representative of the England average in relation to age, sex and funding source, but Bupa has more people in nursing beds with a higher level of frailty. In the Bupa sample, the average length of stay was 801 days, but with a considerable tail of long-stayers. Half of residents had died by 462 days. Around 27% of people lived for more than 3 years, with the longest stayer living for over 20 years. People had a 55% chance of living for the first year after admission, which increased to nearly 70% for the second year before falling back over subsequent years. Adjusted results estimated to more closely reflect the situation in England are provided. The length of stay information is combined with information about the weekly costs of a care home placement to calculate expected costs of care for people newly admitted to care homes. At £550 per week (before inflation), an 832-day expected stay would cost £65,400.
The future ageing of the ethnic minority population in England and Wales
- Author:
- LIEVESLEY Nat
- Publisher:
- Runnymede Trust
- Publication year:
- 2010
- Pagination:
- 81p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
This report gives a detailed estimate of the ethnic make-up of the older population of England and Wales over the next 40 years. It uses, as its classification of ethnicity, the 16 ethnic groups chosen for the 2001 census. While the present population of older black and minority ethnic (BME) people is relatively small and mainly born overseas, over time it will become much larger, more ethnically diverse and will include more people born in the UK . The study used the 16 ethnic group classifications used by the 2001 census. Using 2001 census data as a starting point, the study projects population figures at 5 year time points to 2051 using Cohort Component projections. The report finds that by 2051 the BME (including white ethnic minority groups) population of England and Wales will have reached 25 million, making up 36% of the total. By 2051, in England and Wales , there will be 3.8 million BME older people aged 65 and over and 2.8 million aged 70 and over. This changing population will have implications for public service planners at a local and national level and financial institutions.
Methods of elderly suicides in England and Wales by country of birth groupings
- Authors:
- DENNIS Michael, SHAH Ajit, LINDESAY James
- Journal article citation:
- International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 24(11), November 2009, pp.1311-1313.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
This brief article presents statistics on methods of suicide used by older males and females, using data on suicides and open verdicts for England and Wales obtained from the Office for National Statistics for the period 2001 to 2005. As data concerning ethnicity are not recorded on death certificates, country of birth was used as a proxy. Although this approach only provides mortality data of first generation migrants rather than for entire black and minority ethnic (BME) groups, there is a close match between ethnicity and country of birth for older people. Individual countries of birth were grouped into broader regional country of birth categories, and the number of suicides for each method was calculated by gender for each country of birth grouping. A combined BME group was then calculated for each gender by combining those born outside England and Wales. The results show that hanging, drug overdose and drowning were the commonest methods of suicide in older people in England and Wales in most country of birth groups; in the female Indian subcontinent group the commonest methods were drug overdose, drowning, and burning; methods of suicide in older people were generally similar in the BME population compared to people born in England and Wales.
Subnational patterns of population ageing
- Author:
- BLAKE Sarah
- Journal article citation:
- Population Trends, 136, Summer 2009, pp.43-63.
- Publisher:
- Office for National Statistics
This article explores change in population age structure at the Local Authority (LA) level for the whole of the UK between 1997 and 2017, focusing on change in the older population. It includes case studies exploring the changes in age structure in the three local authorities of Brighton and Hove, Tower Hamlets and Coleraine.
Estimating the changing population of the 'oldest old'
- Authors:
- DINI Ercilia, GOLDRING Shayla
- Journal article citation:
- Population Trends, 132, Summer 2008, pp.8-16.
- Publisher:
- Office for National Statistics
The population of England and Wales is becoming older. This poses an increasing demand for detailed data on the size and trends of the population at the oldest ages. Using the recently released Office for National Statistics (ONS) estimates of the population aged 90 and over in England and Wales, this article shows trends in the population of the oldest old and demographic causes of the rapid increase in centenarians during the twentieth century. It also presents further validation of the ONS estimates of the oldest old with estimates from other data sources.
Estimates of the number of older people with a visual impairment in the UK
- Author:
- CHARLES Nigel
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Visual Impairment, 25(3), September 2007, pp.199-215.
- Publisher:
- Sage
This article considers two key studies that have made it possible to produce estimates of the size of the older visually impaired population in the UK. It concludes that there are between about 1.6m and 2.2m people aged 65 years and over in the UK with visual acuity ranging from mild to serious levels of visual impairment. About half of visually impaired older people fall into the category of mild vision impairment (6/12 — 6/18). The other half has a moderate to severe visual impairment (VA < 6/18). Women aged 65 years and over with moderate or severe visual impairment outnumber visually impaired men by nearly three to one. Of those aged 75 years and over with moderate to severe visual impairment, about half of them have cataracts or refractive error, many of whom could have treatment or intervention which would considerably improve their vision. There are also an estimated 300,000 people aged 75 years and over in the UK with registerable eye conditions.
Older workers: statistical information booklet: quarter two 2007
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department for Work and Pensions
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department for Work and Pensions
- Publication year:
- 2007
- Pagination:
- 23p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Baseline year – 1997 for lone parents, the over-50s and the lowest qualified; 1998 for people with disabilities and ethnic minority people. The employment rates for all these groups were lower than the national employment rate. Between 1997 and 2006, there has been a rise in the employment rates of the over-50s from 64.7 per cent to 70.9 per cent and of lone parents from 45.3 per cent to 56.6 per cent. The employment rate for the lowest qualified has fallen from 51.7 per cent in 1997 to 49.4 per cent in 2006.
The demographic characteristics of the oldest old in the United Kingdom
- Author:
- TOMASSINI Cecilia
- Journal article citation:
- Population Trends, 120, Summer 2005, pp.15-22.
- Publisher:
- Office for National Statistics
Those aged 85 and over are the fastest growing age group in the population of many developed countries. This article draws together demographic characteristics of people aged 85 and over from various different national data sources to provided and up-to-date picture of the oldest old.
Age, marital processes, and depressed affect
- Authors:
- BOOKWALA Jamila, JACOBS Jamie
- Journal article citation:
- Gerontologist, 44(3), June 2004, pp.328-338.
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
This article examined age-cohort differences in the interrelationships among marital processes and depressed affect. It used data from individuals in first marriages that participated in the National Survey of Families and Households (NSFH). The NSFH interviewed one adult per household of a nationally representative sample. Participants were categorized into young (n = 2,289), middle-aged (n = 1,145), and older adult (n = 691) age cohorts. The three age cohorts did not differ on negative marital processes (NMP), but older adults scored significantly higher on marital satisfaction than young and middle-aged adults. Marital satisfaction mediated the link between NMP and depressed affect for young adults and older adults. NMP were more strongly related to depressed affect for young adults than middle-aged adults, whereas marital satisfaction was more strongly related to depressed affect for older adults than young adults. The findings on age-cohort differences in the salience of marital processes to depressed affect are discussed in light of socioemotional selectivity theory.