Asset Stripping
Asset Stripping: Local Authorities and Older Homeowners Paying for a Care Home Place

Asset Stripping: Local Authorities and Older Homeowners Paying for a Care Home Place


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Finding a fair and equitable system of paying for long-term residential or nursing home care remains a major policy issue at the beginning of the 21st century. The system of means-testing and the obligation to sell property are widely resented. Worse, there are startling differences between local authorities in the way the law is interpreted. This report explores the experiences of older people who self-fund their residential or nursing home care. It finds that for frail older people and their relatives, choosing and paying for long-term care is fraught with confusion over the legal complexities. Based on a national survey of English and Welsh local authorities, case studies, and interviews with care home providers, self-funding residents and their relatives, "Asset stripping": shows a wide variation in local authority policies and practices; describes conflicts between local authorities and independent sector care home providers; raises questions about the well-being of frail older residents in the current tense market situation; and questions the lack of impartial advice for older homeowners about the alternatives to care home admission and about the different types of care home. This report should prove valuable to social service department staff, social work and social policy students, care home providers, organisations campaigning on behalf of older people, older people themselves and their relatives.

Table of Contents:
The research project; The context - means testing and long-term care; Local authority policies and spending restrictions; Local authority variation in the treatment of a property; Local authorities and care home providers - a strained relationship; Why private payers had entered care homes; Finding and paying for long-term care; Key findings and policy implications.

About the Author :
Fay Wright is a Senior Teaching and Research Fellow at the Age Concern Institute of Gerontology, King's College London. She has extensive research experience in residential care and informal carers' issues, and was a contributor to the reports of the Royal Commission on Long Term Care.

Review :
"This report is extremely clear and forcefully presents the case for greater equity for older homeowners or those with capital ... a useful tool for authorities and others wishing to press for greater resources." Research Policy and Planning vol. 20 no.1


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781861343505
  • Publisher: Policy Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Policy Press
  • Height: 292 mm
  • Sub Title: Local Authorities and Older Homeowners Paying for a Care Home Place
  • Width: 203 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1861343507
  • Publisher Date: 20 Mar 2002
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Spine Width: 6 mm
  • Weight: 210 gr


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