The effect of financial incentives and access to services on self-funded admissions to long-term care

Social Policy and Administration

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 483-497

  Netten, Ann ^a   Darton, Robin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Access to services; Care homes for older people; Long term care; Self funded residents

Indexed keywords

ACCESSIBILITY; FINANCIAL PROVISION; HEALTH CARE;

UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 0142072607     PISSN: 01445596     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9515.00353     Document Type: Article

References (23)

1. Audit Commission (1986), Making a Reality of Community Care, London: HMSO.
2. Audit Commission (2000), Charging with Care: How Councils Charge for Home Care, London: Audit Commission.
3. Baldwin, S. and Lunt, N. (1996), Charging Ahead: The Development of Local Authority Charging Policies for Community Care, Community Care into Practice Series, Bristol: Policy Press.
4. Bebbington, A., Brown, P., Darton, R. and Netten, A. (1996), Survey of Admissions to Residential Care: SSA Analysis Report, Discussion paper no. 1217/3, Personal Social Services Research Unit, University of Kent at Canterbury.
5. Bebbington, A., Darton, R. and Netten, A. (2001), Care Homes for Older People, vol. 2: Admissions, Needs and Outcomes, The 1995/96 National Longitudinal Survey of Publicly-Funded Admissions, Personal Social Services Research Unit, University of Kent at Canterbury.
6. Carpenter, G. I., Phillips, C. D. and Mor, V. (eds) (1997), Continuing and rehabilitative care for elderly people: a comparison of countries and settings, Age and Ageing, 26, Supplement 2.
7. Collin, C., Wade, D. T., Davies, S. and Horne, V. (1988), The Barthel ADL Index: a reliability study, International Disability Studies, 10, 2: 61-3.
8. Darton, R., Netten, A. and Whitfield, G. (2000), Survey of self-funded admissions to residential and nursing homes. In Department of Social Security, Research Yearbook 1999/2000, ed. A. Fleiss, Corporate Document Services, Leeds, pp. 57-66.
9. Department of Health (1998), Community Care (Residential Accommodation) Act 1998, LAC(98)19, London: Department of Health.
10. Department of Health (2001), Charges for Residential Accommodation-CRAG Amendment No 13, LAC(2001)10, London: Department of Health.
11. Department of Health (2002a), Charges for Residential Accommodation-CRAG Amendment No 17, LAC(2002)II, London: Department of Health.
12. Department of Health (2002b), Guidance on the Single Assessment Process for Older People, HSC 2002/001: LAC (2002)I, London: Department of Health.
13. Department of Health (2003), Care Homes for Older People: National Minimum Standards, London: Stationery Office.
14. Morris, J. N., Hawes, C., Fries, B. E., Phillips, C. D., Mor, V., Katz, S., Murphy, K., Drugovich, M. L. and Friedlob, A. S. (1990), Designing the national resident assessment instrument for nursing homes, The Gerontologist, 30, 3: 293-307.
15. Morris, J. N., Fries, B. E., Mehr, D. R., Hawes, C., Phillips, C., Mor, V. and Lipsitz, L. A. (1994), MDS Cognitive Performance Scale, Journal of Gerontology: Medical Sciences, 49, 4: M174-M182.
16. Netten, A., Bebbington, A., Darton, R. and Forder, J. (2001a), Care Homes for Older People, vol. 1: Facilities, Residents and Costs, Personal Social Services Research Unit, University of Kent at Canterbury.
17. Netten, A., Darton, R., Bebbington, A., Forder, J., Brown, P. and Mummery, K. (2001b), Residential and nursing home care of elderly people with cognitive impairment: prevalence, mortality and costs, Aging and Mental Health, 5, 1: 14-22.
18. Netten, A., Darton, R. and Curtis, L. (2002), Self-Funded Admissions to Care Homes, Department for Work and Pensions Research Report no. 159, Corporate Document Services, Leeds.
19. Warburton, R. W. (1994), Home and Away: A Review of Recent Research Evidence to Explain Why Some Elderly People Enter Residential Care Homes while Others Stay at Home, London: Department of Health.
20. Wigley, V., Fisk, M., Gisby, B. and Preston-Shoot, M. (1998), Older People in Care Homes: Consumer Perspectives, A Survey for the Office of fair Trading, Liverpool John Moores University and Elderly Accommodation Counsel, London.
21. Wittenberg, R., Pickard, L., Comas-Herrera, A., Davies, B. and Darton, R. (1998), Demand for Long-term Care: Projections of Long-term Care Finance for Elderly People, Personal Social Services Research Unit, University of Kent at Canterbury, London School of Economics and University of Manchester.
22. Wright, F. (2000), Continuing to pay: the consequences for family caregivers of an older person's admission to a care home, Social Policy & Administration, 34, 2: 191-205.
23. Wright, F. (2002), Asset Stripping: Local Authorities and Older Homeowners Paying for a Care How Place, Bristol: Policy Press.