SCOTTISH EXECUTIVE

Housing for the Elderly and the Disabled
Provision by Public Agencies and Housing Associations as at 31 March 1999: by Local Authority

Table 16
Number of dwellings

Area

Population aged 65 & over 30 June 1998'000s

Housing for the elderly

Housing for the Disabled

Very Sheltered

Sheltered

Amenity^3,4

Other dwellings with alarm^3,4

Wheelchair

Ambulant disabled

Other specially adapted

Number

Rate per1,000 aged65 and Over

Number

Rate per1,000 aged65 and Over

of which sheltered wheelchair Number

SCOTLAND

784.1

1,620

2.1

36,666

46.8

2,786

20,222

37,222

3,046

7,759

10,047

Aberdeen City

31.7

94

3.0

2,562

80.8

46

349

1,264

128

774

17

Aberdeenshire¹

30.4

320

10.5

2,022

66.5

753

2,698

215

198

250

150

Angus

18.5

-

-

1,092

59.0

19

225

986

46

71

22

Argyll & Bute

16.3

29

1.8

590

36.1

42

186

217

34

55

1

Clackmannanshire

7.0

88

12.5

239

34.0

-

950

-

75

67

383

Dumfries & Galloway²

27.4

-

-

696

25.4

20

885

-

18

14

2

Dundee City

25.5

128

5.0

4,057

159.1

135

170

1,204

172

48

4,060

East Ayrshire

19.2

-

-

734

38.3

94

262

469

37

67

-

East Dunbartonshire

15.9

-

-

336

21.1

54

29

122

12

-

-

East Lothian

14.9

28

1.9

452

30.3

7

608

830

32

2

-

East Renfrewshire

13.0

41

3.1

417

32.0

17

708

123

18

-

-

Edinburgh, City of

68.9

109

1.6

3,694

53.6

98

811

481

346

340

491

Eilean Siar

5.2

-

-

212

40.9

-

8

-

7

1

23

Falkirk

21.3

47

2.2

754

35.4

6

969

-

87

520

2,052

Fife

55.2

83

1.5

1,887

34.2

52

610

2,240

166

125

71

Glasgow City

92.9

194

2.1

3,785

40.7

366

875

13,619

336

3,849

44

Highland

32.9

6

0.2

799

24.3

11

1,072

234

81

203

5

Inverclyde

13.7

39

2.8

824

60.1

31

163

679

56

3

45

Midlothian

11.2

35

3.1

288

25.7

12

193

353

61

-

201

Moray

13.4

32

2.4

497

37.0

12

997

212

58

163

2

North Ayrshire

21.3

25

1.2

668

31.4

48

2,656

700

76

282

-

North Lanarkshire

44.2

-

-

2,981

67.4

-

1,352

1,966

314

-

-

Orkney Islands

3.2

-

-

44

13.9

5

79

-

44

150

-

Perth & Kinross⁴

24.3

79

3.3

972

40.0

68

238

1,330

79

12

-

Renfrewshire¹

25.7

30

1.2

691

26.9

24

514

940

152

25

57

Scottish Borders, The

20.1

69

3.4

995

49.5

5

584

1,432

87

4

252

Shetland Islands¹

2.9

25

8.5

288

98.1

2

4

341

12

72

13

South Ayrshire

20.8

8

0.4

789

37.9

14

262

568

13

-

-

South Lanarkshire

43.0

19

0.4

1,645

38.2

83

594

4,347

124

331

989

Stirling¹

12.8

20

1.6

452

35.3

10

646

395

93

274

1,160

West Dunbartonshire

14.4

25

1.7

456

31.7

4

239

969

84

57

7

West Lothian

16.8

47

2.8

748

44.5

748

286

986

-

-

-