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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 March 2005 and are provisional and, as such, subject to change. The final figures will be published in the next care home census statistical release. Final figures for the period March 2000 to September 2004 are also included.
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 F.
Main Points
- At 31 March 2005 there were a total of 1,523 registered care homes providing 43,700 places to 38,295 residents. Annex A provides further details.
- The number of registered places in care homes for older people was 38,327. This had increased for the fourth consecutive census but is still 1.9 per cent down on the March 2000 level.
- Of the 980 care homes for older people, 185 were in the Local Authority/ NHS sector (18.9 per cent), a further 643 were in the private sector (65.6 per cent) and the remaining 152 (15.5 per cent) were in the voluntary sector.
- 67 per cent of available places in care homes for older people were in rooms with en-suite facilities and 86 per cent of available places were in single rooms.
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