The number of households receiving intensive home help/care as a percentage of all adults and older people in residential and nursing care and households receiving intensive home help/care.
The provision of intensive home care services helps many people to remain at home, or to go home following hospital treatment or a period spent in a group home. Most people prefer care in their own homes rather than in a residential home and it comes closest to meeting the aim of helping people to live a normal, independent life. Often the gross cost of such services is less than that of residential care. Where this is the case a high value indicates both a better outcome and a more efficient one. This indicator also relates to the Department of Health PSA target to increase, by 2008, the proportion of those supported intensively to live at home to 24% of the total of those being supported at home or in residential care.
This indicator has been discontinued and so there will be no further updates.
Legacy unique identifier: P01103