Scottish Community Care Statistics 2001
Domiciliary Care
Tables 2.1 and 2.2 contain information on home care services provided to clients with learning disabilities. Information on home care for other individual client groups is included in chapters 1, 3, 4 and 5. More detailed analysis of home care for all client groups is contained in chapter 1. Please refer to the notes in annex A for definitions on which the data are collected.
Table 2.1: Age Breakdown of Clients with Learning Disabilities, 1998-2001
Age Group | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 |
0-15 | 4% | 6% | 5% | 12% |
16-17 | 1% | 1% | 1% | 1% |
18-64 | 63% | 76% | 74% | 68% |
65-74 | 14% | 11% | 12% | 10% |
75-84 | 14% | 4% | 5% | 6% |
85+ | 5% | 2% | 2% | 3% |
Total | 1,744 | 1,599 | 1,469 | 1,467 |
Source: SEHD Community Care Statistics, H1 Return
Table 2.1 presents the number of clients with learning disabilities receiving home care services in 1998 to 2001. Prior to 1998 a full age/client group breakdown was not provided. Between 1998 and 2001 the number of clients with learning disabilities fell slightly from 1,744 to 1,467. The highest proportion of clients are in the 18-64 age group which accounted for around two-thirds of all clients in 2001.
Table 2.2: Age Breakdown of Clients with Learning Disabilities Receiving Home Care, 2001
Local Authority | Age Group | | |
0-15 | 16-64 | 65-74 | 75-84 | 85 plus | Total Clients | Clients per 10,000 Pop'n aged 16-64 |
Aberdeen City | 0% | 69% | 13% | 13% | 6% | 48 | 3.4 |
Aberdeenshire | 11% | 68% | 11% | 5% | 5% | 19 | 1.3 |
Angus | 2% | 83% | 10% | 2% | 2% | 41 | 5.9 |
Argyll & Bute | 0% | 27% | 17% | 35% | 21% | 63 | 11.1 |
Clackmannanshire | 39% | 57% | 0% | 5% | 0% | 44 | 14.1 |
Dumfries & Galloway | 3% | 69% | 11% | 3% | 14% | 35 | 3.9 |
Dundee City | 0% | 58% | 37% | 0% | 5% | 19 | 2.1 |
East Ayrshire | 3% | 84% | 13% | 0% | 0% | 31 | 4.0 |
East Dunbartonshire | 0% | 80% | 0% | 0% | 20% | 5 | 0.7 |
East Lothian | 0% | 100% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 10 | 1.7 |
East Renfrewshire | 20% | 73% | 6% | 2% | 0% | 51 | 8.7 |
Edinburgh, City of | 2% | 86% | 12% | 0% | 0% | 121 | 3.9 |
Eilean Siar | 0% | 86% | 14% | 0% | 0% | 7 | 4.2 |
Falkirk | 0% | 72% | 23% | 2% | 2% | 43 | 4.6 |
Fife | 2% | 84% | 12% | 1% | 0% | 90 | 4.0 |
Glasgow City | 58% | 23% | 13% | 4% | 2% | 150 | 3.7 |
Highland | 0% | 64% | 21% | 12% | 3% | 33 | 2.5 |
Inverclyde | 4% | 68% | 4% | 19% | 4% | 47 | 8.7 |
Midlothian | 0% | 96% | 4% | 0% | 0% | 46 | 8.4 |
Moray | 5% | 70% | 15% | 10% | 0% | 20 | 3.7 |
North Ayrshire | 20% | 56% | 10% | 14% | 0% | 50 | 5.6 |
North Lanarkshire | 8% | 76% | 7% | 8% | 2% | 90 | 4.2 |
Orkney Islands | 0% | 50% | 25% | 0% | 25% | 4 | 3.2 |
Perth & Kinross | 28% | 72% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 32 | 3.8 |
Renfrewshire | 4% | 79% | 11% | 0% | 7% | 56 | 4.9 |
Scottish Borders | 0% | 90% | 5% | 5% | 0% | 21 | 3.2 |
Shetland Islands | 5% | 64% | 18% | 9% | 5% | 22 | 15.3 |
South Ayrshire | 0% | 97% | 3% | 0% | 0% | 58 | 8.1 |
South Lanarkshire | 3% | 80% | 7% | 6% | 4% | 100 | 5.0 |
Stirling | 8% | 75% | 14% | 3% | 0% | 36 | 6.4 |
West Dunbartonshire | 41% | 59% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 46 | 7.6 |
West Lothian | 0% | 86% | 7% | 7% | 0% | 29 | 2.7 |
Scotland | 12% | 69% | 10% | 6% | 3% | 1,467 | 4.4 |
Source: SEHD Community Care Statistics, H1 Return
Table 2.2 presents an age breakdown of clients with learning disabilities receiving home care services within each local authority in 2001.
Shetland Islands had the highest level of clients with learning disabilities. This amounted to 15.3 clients per 10,000 of the population aged between 16 and 64. In contrast, East Dunbartonshire had a very small number of clients with 0.7 clients per 10,000 of the population aged between 16 and 64.
The total number of clients with learning disabilities who received home care in Scotland in 2000 was 1,467; 69 per cent fell within the 16 to 64 age category and 19 per cent in the 65 and over age group. The total number receiving care, per 10,000 of the population aged between 16 and 64, was 4.4.