Community Care Scotland 1997 Section 2 page 20

Community Care, Scotland 1997

Table 2.20 Day Centres for Older People: 31 March 1997⁽¹⁾⁽²⁾

Local Authority	Number of centres	Number of places	Places per 1,000 pop'n aged 65+	Number attending ⁽³⁾	Number attending per 1,000 pop'n aged 65+⁽³⁾
Aberdeen City	17	245	7.7	684	21.6
Aberdeenshire	53	669	22.2	865	28.7
Angus	5	116	6.3	265	14.3
Argyll & Bute	5	100	6.1	306	18.7
Clackmannanshire	2	17	2.4	52	7.4
Dumfries & Galloway	9	482	17.8	931	34.3
Dundee City	2	70	2.7	217	8.5
East Ayrshire	7	59	3.1	130	6.8
East Dunbartonshire	1	10	0.6	20	1.3
East Lothian	0	0	0.0	0	0.0
East Renfrewshire	2	45	3.5	103	8.0
Edinburgh, City of	16	1,044	15.1	1,663	24.1
Eilean Siar	13	104	20.1	66	12.8
Falkirk	4	111	5.2	108	5.1
Fife	19	259	4.7	627	11.4
Glasgow City	29	866	9.2	2,256	24.0
Highland	54	699	21.4	1,302	39.9
Inverclyde	3	33	2.4	58	4.2
Midlothian	1	16	1.4	42	3.8
Moray	14	111	8.4	120	9.0
North Ayrshire	6	90	4.3	180	8.5
North Lanarkshire	15	250	5.7	477	10.9
Orkney Islands	3	35	11.0	111	34.9
Perth & Kinross	6	164	6.8	430	17.8
Renfrewshire	9	323	12.6	705	27.6
Scottish Borders	10	184	9.2	433	21.7
Shetland Islands	5	96	32.4	133	44.9
South Ayrshire	11	373	18.0	714	34.5
South Lanarkshire	21	413	9.7	914	21.5
Stirling	3	15	1.2	38	3.0
West Dunbartonshire	8	181	12.5	436	30.2
West Lothian	5	285	17.1	473	28.3

Scotland	358	7,465	9.5	14,859	19.0

(1) Includes any Day Centres with 4 or less places (which are usually attached to residential homes).

(2) In the event of non-response, previous figures have been used. Current practice is to use only figures up to 2 years old at the census date.

(3) Attendance figures include all people on the registers of the centres, irrespective of age or disability.