Marked drop in number of North Lincs pensioners going into care homes, according to research
More pensioners in North Lincolnshire are choosing not to go into care homes until their late 80s, if at all, it has been revealed.
Research has show a marked drop since 2009 in the numbers of old people opting to spend the rest of their lives in a care home.
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Research has show a marked drop since 2009 in the numbers of old people opting to spend the rest of their lives in a care home
During the first nine months of the 2012-13 financial year, 169 men and women over 65 entered care homes.
That is compared with 202 people in 2011/12, 221 in 2010-11 and 263 in 2009-10.
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North Lincolnshire Council chiefs, who are committed this year to spending £36.25 million on adult social care, have attributed the drop in numbers to the provision of self-directed support for pensioners.
A spokeswoman said: “Since 2009 the policy for adult social care is to offer all people who are eligible for long-term support the option of having a cash budget as an alternative to arrange their own care and support”.
“The personal budget enables people to have much greater choice and control over their lives”.
“The uptake of personal budgets has been growing locally and in 2013 a further rise is expected”.
Self-directed support is offered to anyone living in the community who gets help paid for by the council’s social sservices department.
Applicants are requested to complete a personal budget questionnaire and, if they are eligible for support, they are able top develop a support plan.
The spokeswoman added: “The council is encouraging clients to think creatively about the services they use and we can help them to look at the different options available to them”.
“The costs are unique for each individual based on their needs and the home they enter, consequently the overall budget is demand-led”.
“More and more people are taking up the new policy of arranging their own care. Therefore many people aren’t entering care homes until their late 80s if at all”.
Last week the government revealed plans to increase the limit for care benefit to £123,000 - five times the current threshold.
The move is aimed at ending the heartache of elderly people having to sell their homes to pay fees in care homes.
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2 Comments
by AndrewCappEsq
Tuesday, February 26 2013, 1:11PM
“Apologies that should read "the ****wood brothers" ;-)”
by AndrewCappEsq
Tuesday, February 26 2013, 1:09PM
“ROFL Me thinks a few of these council/social Services types maybe deluding themselves and disproportionately adorning themselves in too much glory here, as always!
I suspect they are failing to also take account of the impact of many other factors/inluence on the elderly and even more so their families, careres and advocates!?
The never ending frightening and damaging publicity and inquiries into elderly care and care home standards; shortage of hospital beds and care home places; patients left on trolleys in hospital corridors; high hospitality mortality rates...ad infinitum!!
We as a family will never allow for our elderly to go into care so long as we have the space to give them the quality 'independant' living they need and want!
That's providing North Lincolnshire's parochial small minded, dimwit parish & ward councillors (the ****wood brothers and their village idiot cronies) don't revert back to applying pressure and keep sending around NLC planning enforcement minders to snoop on how people occupy their own properties!
Many a time just out of sheer vindictive resentment and retaliation after so called 'anonymous complaints'!!
But that seems to be the prevalent mentality and culture in this backwater and North Lincolnshire's and Scunthorpe's local government! (;-)”