Housing is a key element in maintaining well-being and independence in old age. However, the elderly live in worse housing conditions than younger people in terms of unsuitable housing, accommodation which is draughty, cold and lacking in basic amenities and in properties in a poor state of...

The twelve years preceding the introduction of the community care reforms in 1993/4 saw an increased demand for health and social services generated by the increase in numbers of older people (particularly the over 85s) and reflected in the rapid growth of residential and nursing home places...

This paper is concerned with the costing of informal care which is the unpaid help provided, in this instance, to an elderly person by relatives and friends. Economic appraisals of alternative ways of caring for elderly people have frequently been unable to cost this input although it has often...

This paper is concerned with the provision of long-stay care for the elderly in a district Health Authority. The major alternative forms of care compared are NHS long-stay hospital and the use of "contract beds" in private nursing homes. "Contract beds" are beds occupied by NHS patients and paid...