Survey of Self-Funded Admissions to Care Homes

The objectives of the study were: 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 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 associated with the choice of home; identify the level of receipt of non-means tested benefits; and to estimate expected length of stay of self-funded residents.

The dataset contains data from a survey of care home managers, and from a survey of relatives or other contacts of residents of care homes, where these were available. the home managers provided information about the home on the home manager questionnaire and about recently-admitted residents on the resident questionnaire. The relatives/other contacts provided information about the same residents on the family/friend questionnaire.

Residential and nursing homes (care homes) catering for older people funding their own care (self-funders); individual self-funded older people in care homes; 500 care homes selected; 481 care homes agreed to participate, and 292 care homes had 1076 admissions in survey period.