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Lifetime risk of entering residential or nursing home care in England

Bebbington, Andrew, Darton, Robin, Netten, Ann (1997) Lifetime risk of entering residential or nursing home care in England. Personal Social Services Research Unit (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided) (KAR id:27183)

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Abstract

<h3>Study objectives</h3><p>To estimate the risk of entry to long-stay residential and nursing care for elderly people, from current admission rates.

<p><p><h3>Design</h3><p>Double-decremented life-table analysis of national statistics which are refined using evidence from PSSRU<p><p>surveys of residential and nursing care.

<p><p><h3>Setting</h3><p>England, 1995/6.

<p><p><h3>Main results</h3><p>The life time risk of long-stay entry into a care home, based on 1995/6 admission rates, for men is 16 per cent at birth, rising to 20 per cent at 65. For women, the risk is much higher, rising from 32 per cent at birth to 36 per cent at 65. The expectation of long-stay care for elderly people, of someone who has not already been admitted, for a man is 3½ months at birth rising to 4 months at 65. For a woman it is 11 months at birth rising to 12 months at 65. These are the average insurance risks for a person not already in a care home.

<p><p><h3>Conclusions</h3><p>The risk is now greater than is widely appreciated. This has significant implications for personal planning as well as to insurers and fundors.

Item Type: Research report (external)
Divisions: Divisions > Division for the Study of Law, Society and Social Justice > School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research > Personal Social Services Research Unit
Depositing User: Robin Darton
Date Deposited: 20 May 2011 14:24 UTC
Last Modified: 16 Nov 2021 10:05 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/27183 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

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Bebbington, Andrew.

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Darton, Robin.

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Netten, Ann.

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