Introduction
The purpose of this Statistics Release is to present national figures for care homes for adults in Scotland. All figures relate to 31 March 2007 and are provisional. As such they are subject to change. The final figures will be published in subsequent statistics bulletins. The information is derived from the Scottish Care Home Census.
Some of the information which used to be collected as part of the Scottish Care Home Census is now collected by the Care Commission. This information is not included in this publication. More details of this can be found in the background information section at the end of this statistics release.
All figures in this release omit care homes that deregistered to become Housing Support services.
Main Points
- At 31 March 2007 there were a total of 1,456 registered care homes providing 42,361 places to 37,627 residents. Annexes A and D provide further details.
- There were 944 care homes for older people as at 31 March 2007 compared to 1060 at 31 March 2000.
- There were 37,301 registered places in care homes for older people. The number of places had decreased by 2.2 per cent since March 2006 and by 5 per cent from the March 2000 level.
- The number of care homes for adults with learning disabilities has decreased by 62 since March 2000, from 386 to 324 as at March 2007.
Chart 1: Places in Care Homes for Older People per 1,000 Population Aged 65+
