Statistics Release: CARE HOMES, SCOTLAND MARCH 2004
Introduction
The purpose of this Statistics Release is to present national figures for care homes for adults in Scotland. All figures relate to the 31 st March 2004 and are provisional and, as such, subject to change. The final figures will be published in the next care home census statistical release. The final figures for the 30 th September 2003 are included within this publication.
The information is derived from the Scottish Care Home Census which combines two former surveys - 'The Residential Care Homes Census' and the 'Private Nursing Home Census'. Returns are made to the Scottish Executive by individual care homes directly or via Scottish local authorities. Refer to the background note for further details relating to the census of care home establishments.
All figures in this release omit care homes that deregistered to become Housing Support services. Information on the number of former care homes deregistering for this reason can be found in annex G .
Main Points
- At 31 st March 2004 there were 1,548 registered care homes providing 42,883 places to 38,195 residents (see Annex H).
- The number of registered places in care homes for older people has fallen slightly to 36,697 (a decrease of 112 places since September 2003).
- The occupancy rate in registered care homes for older people (the number of occupied or unavailable places) has also fallen from 92.9 per cent to 91.7 per cent. See Chart 1.
Information collected on registered care homes shows that:-
- 270 are in the local authority/NHS sectors compared to 730 in the private sector and 548 in the voluntary sector.
- All care homes provide a registered 42,883 places throughout Scotland of which 86 per cent (36,697) are for older people and those with dementia.
