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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 30 September 2005 and are provisional and, as such, subject to change. The final figures will be published on the Scottish Executive website later this year. Final figures for the period March 2000 to March 2005 are also included. The information is derived from the Scottish Care Home Census.
This release also includes details of long stay residents in Care Homes for Older People for censuses dating back to March 2003. This is the first time such information has been published since the introduction of the current form of the census in March 2003.
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 30 September 2005 there were a total of 1,504 registered care homes providing 43,583 places to 38,433 residents. Annexes A and G provide further details.
- The number of registered places in care homes for older people was 38,191. This had decreased by 0.3 per cent since March 2005 and by 2.4 per cent from the March 2000 level.
- 71 per cent of available places in care homes for older people were in rooms with en-suite facilities and 87 per cent of available places were in single rooms.
- Of the 32,893 long stay residents in care homes for Older People, 9000 (27 per cent) were male and 23,893 (73 per cent) were female, 48 per cent were aged 85 or over and 36 per cent were aged 75-84.
Chart 1: Care Homes, Places and Residents, Care Homes for Older people: March 2000 - September 2005
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