Scottish Community Care Statistics 2001

Special Needs Housing

Tables 1.10 and 1.11 contain information on special needs housing for older people. For definitions on which the data are collected, please refer to the notes in annex A.

Table 1.10: Special Needs Housing for the Elderly Provided by Public Agencies and Housing Associations, 1980-2001

	1980	1985	1990	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000 ¹	2001
Very sheltered	n/a	n/a	n/a	671	719	913	1,144	1,389	1,689	1,828
Sheltered (not wheelchair)	8,257	18,521	27,992	31,897	32,908	33,345	33,232	32,561	33,692	33,127
Sheltered (wheelchair)	219	611	1,310	1,790	2,068	2,139	2,864	2,191	1,650	1,488
Amenity	2,782	6,134	14,224	19,013	18,535	16,883	17,245	16,751	16,870	16,674
Other Dwellings with Alarms ¹	..	..	..	23,121	27,769	32,363	35,634	37,130	37,425	37,968
All dwellings	11,258	25,266	43,526	76,492	81,999	85,643	90,119	90,022	91,326	91,085
No. of dwellings per 1,000 Population aged 65 and over	16	34	57	98	105	110	115	115	116	115

In local authorities where no returns have been received, the previous years figure has been used.

Source: SEDD Housing Statistics - S1B Return

Table 1.10 presents the number of special needs housing dwellings for older people in Scotland from 1980 to 2001. The total number of dwellings has generally increased over time, from 11,258 in 1980 to 91,326 in 2000. However, the number fell slightly in 2001 to 91,085. In 2001, other dwellings with alarms accounted for 42 per cent of total dwellings followed closely by sheltered housing with 40 per cent of the total.

Table 1.11: Special Needs Housing for the Elderly Provided by Public Agencies and Housing Associations, 2001

Local Authority	Very sheltered		Sheltered					Total
Local Authority	Number	Rate per 1,000aged 65 and over	Not wheelchair	With wheelchair	Rate per 1,000 aged 65 and over	Amenity ^1,2	Other dwellings with alarms	Number	Rate per 1,000 aged 65 and over
Aberdeen City	86	2.7	2,505	35	79.9	182	1,223	4,031	126.7
Aberdeenshire	74	2.4	1,311	725	65.4	2,446	1,373	5,929	190.6
Angus	27	1.5	1,086	13	59.5	268	927	2,321	125.7
Argyll & Bute	29	1.8	489	127	37.4	176	9	830	50.4
Clackmannanshire	9	1.3	235	4	33.6	347	245	840	117.9
Dumfries & Galloway	18	0.6	647	8	23.5	920	420	2,013	72.2
Dundee City	129	5.1	4,100	103	166.0	169	197	4,698	185.5
East Ayrshire	15	0.8	676	7	35.3	231	1,613	2,542	131.3
East Dunbartonshire	16	1.0	374	38	24.8	29	484	941	56.7
East Lothian	41	2.7	428	7	28.9	607	720	1,803	119.9
East Renfrewshire	42	3.1	373	9	28.4	413	257	1,094	81.4
Edinburgh, City of	250	3.7	3,243	53	48.4	927	365	4,838	71.0
Eilean Siar	72	14.0	448	13	89.8	123	101	757	147.4
Falkirk	115	5.3	1,022	6	47.7	1,151	0	2,294	106.4
Fife	187	3.4	3,438	42	62.6	1,298	2,411	7,376	132.7
Glasgow City	134	1.5	1,718		19.2	377	12,806	15,035	168.1
Highland	36	1.1	774	12	23.4	201	205	1,228	36.6
Inverclyde	32	2.4	464	51	38.0	185	912	1,644	121.2
Midlothian	28	2.5	368	0	32.3	138	375	909	79.7
Moray	25	1.8	233	8	17.6	1,336	500	2,102	153.1
North Ayrshire	41	1.9	1,053	48	51.2	1,178	537	2,857	132.9
North Lanarkshire	0	0.0	1,042	60	24.3	213	3,419	4,734	104.4
Orkney Islands	76	23.7	530	0	165.5	251	82	939	293.2
Perth & Kinross	40	1.6	883	28	37.0	394	823	2,168	88.1
Renfrewshire	44	1.7	1,042	12	40.7	900	1,113	3,111	120.0
Scottish Borders	0	0.0	306	1	15.2	15	302	624	30.9
Shetland Islands	45	14.9	408	2	136.0	93	364	912	302.6
South Ayrshire	68	3.2	933	14	45.1	518	568	2,101	100.2
South Lanarkshire	21	0.5	1,445	40	34.2	425	3,737	5,670	130.7
Stirling	34	2.6	528	1	40.9	625	354	1,542	119.3
West Dunbartonshire	86	6.1	889	0	62.9	478	774	2,227	157.6
West Lothian	8	0.5	136	21	9.2	60	750	975	56.9
Scotland	1,828	2.3	33,127	1,488	44.0	16,674	37,968	91,085	115.7

Dwellings are adapted to suit particular needs of tenants, so numbers in these categories may rise or fall from year to year.
² Perth & Kinross Council are unable to separately identify local authority "amenity" and "other" dwellings which have alarms.
As a result the figure given for "amenity" housing in Perth & Kinross relates to Housing Association dwellings only.
The figure given for "other dwellings with alarms" also includes local authority amenity dwellings.

Source: SEDD Housing Statistics - S1B Return

Table 1.11 gives a breakdown of the different types of special needs dwellings within each local authority.

In 2001, the Orkney Islands had the highest rate of very sheltered housing (23.7) per 1,000 of the population aged 65 and over. This accounted for 8 per cent of their total special needs housing stock. The rate for Scotland was 2.3 per 1,000 of the population aged 65 and over.

Dundee City had the highest number of sheltered dwellings (166) per 1,000 of the population aged 65 and over. At the same time the Scotland total was 44, whilst West Lothian had only 9.2 dwellings per 1,000 of the population aged 65 and over. Eighty-nine per cent of Dundee City's housing stock was in the sheltered dwellings' category. Meanwhile in Glasgow City only 11 per cent of their stock fell within this category.

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