Feasibility Study for a Survey of Privately-Funded Admissions to Residential and Nursing Homes. Final report

Abstract

The objectives of the proposed survey are: to establish whether self-funded people who are admitted to residential care differ significantly in terms of financial assets and informal support from elderly people in private households; to estimate expected length of stay of privately-funded residents; to establish the extent to which self-financed residents are admitted at levels of dependency that might have been maintained in the community; to investigate the process of admission and whether those people with lower levels of dependency are admitted through choice or lack of access to appropriate alternatives; to investigate factors affecting fees paid (choice of home, the contractual arrangements and decision making processfor fee setting); and to identify the level of receipt by all residents of non-means tested benefits. The aims of the feasibility survey were: to identify the data that needs to be collected; to establish an appropriate methodology or options for collecting data; to identify the size of the sample required; to cost the different options; and to identify the time scale associated with each option