Key Stats - Independent Living, Long-term Care and Carers

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This section is currently under development.

In this section you will find statistics relevant to Position Paper 6: Live in place like home.

1. - Living arrangements
2. - Support for independent living
3. - Carers

Have the above been renamed as Housing Adaption Grant schemes? see DOEHLG Press Release of 4/5/07

1. - Living arrangements

1.1 - Ireland: Persons aged 65 & over by living arrangements, 2006

% of age group

		In private households
Age Group	In communal^[1] establishments	Living alone	Living with others	Total
65-69	2.3	19.4	78.3	100.0
70-74	3.2	25.1	71.7	100.0
75-79	5.8	31.7	62.5	100.0
80-84	11.5	35.4	53.1	100.0
85 & over	24.6	31.7	43.7	100.0
65 & over	6.8	26.7	66.5	100.0
Persons aged 65 & over	30,680	121,157	301,088	452,925

Source: Table 3.1 Ageing in Ireland 2007 / CSO Census of Population

1.2 - Persons in private households^[2], distinguishing family^[3] and non-family, by age, 2006

% of total

Category	0-24	25-64	65-84	85 & over	Total
Persons in family households	93.4	83.1	66.5	49.2	85.0
Persons in non-family households	6.7	16.9	33.5	50.8	15.0
Total	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0
Persons (000)	1,484.2	2,216.9	387.4	34.9	4,123.3

Source: Table 7.3 Equality in Ireland 2007 / CSO Census of Population

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1.3 - Home ownership

"In excess of 80 per cent of older householders own their homes outright"

(NESF 2005, Care for Older People Report No. 32, NESF, Dublin, p43)

(Watson and Williams 2003, Irish National Survey of Housing Quality, ESRI, Dublin)

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1.4 - Supported Housing

Social Housing – Voluntary Housing Organisations

“a survey carried out by the ICSH (2005) identified 79 ICSH (Irish Council for Social Housing) member housing associations providing a total of 3,165 units of accommodation in either low support group housing or high support sheltered housing for older people. A total of 84 associations were identified as having plans to develop schemes for older people, which were expected to provide 2,413 further units of accommodation.”

Source: Section 2.2 of “The Role and Future Development of Supportive Housing for Older People in Ireland” (National Council on Ageing and Older People, 2007)

Social Housing – Local Authorities and Voluntary Housing Organisations

“The survey of supportive housing provision by local authorities and voluntary housing organizations identified a total provision of 9,232 units of accommodation across the country.” This equates to 19.8 units per one thousand older people overall but this includes wide variations across the country from 1.1 per one thousand in Waterford County to 59.7 in Dublin City.

Source: Section 3.6 of “The Role and Future Development of Supportive Housing for Older People in Ireland” (National Council on Ageing and Older People, 2007)

Social Housing – Private Sector

"research..by O'Connor et al. (1989) in the 1980s identified seven commercial schemes providing a total of 310 units of sheltered accomodation, representing 9 per cent of the total units identified at the time. Although the combined total supply by local authorities and the voluntary housing sector has increased threefold since then, there is no available data to indicate whether the relative scale of private sector provision has increased commensurately. An internet search, however, suggests that there has been a considerable amount of activity in this field over the past few years, including planning applications and launches of new schemes in various parts of the country.

Financial incentives exist that encourage the private development of supportive housing in Ireland. In particular, there is a tax incentive pertaining to the building of residential units attached to registered nursing homes/convalescent facilities. A recent review of this scheme for the Department of Finance (Indecon, 2007) estimated that 56 nursing homes had associated residential units in 2006, providing an estimated 964 units, which amounts to a significant growth over the past few years. The review concluded that the tax incentive was a cost-effective one and that it should be continued. On foot of this, the government has announced its intention to extend the duration of the scheme."

Source: Section 3.5 of “The Role and Future Development of Supportive Housing for Older People in Ireland” (National Council on Ageing and Older People, 2007)

Independent Living Units (ILUs)

The Nursing Homes Ireland Survey 2007 states that 13% of respondents had ILUs on the site of their nursing homes which are typically developed by operators of larger nursing homes (89% of all such units are located adjacent to nursing homes with 40 beds or more. Respondents were found to have 352 units and a total of 494 beds.

Source: Section 7.1 of Annual Private Nursing Home Survey 2007 (Nursing Homes Ireland in association with Horwath Bastow Charleton, 2008)

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1.5 - Retirement Homes

To be completed.

1.5 - Nursing Homes

			%of cohort
Age group	Males	Females	Total
65-69	1.4	1.2	1.3
70-74	2.3	2.2	2.2
75-79	4.1	4.9	4.6
80-84	8.4	10.7	9.8
85 & over	16.4	25.5	22.7
65 & over	4.1	6.7	5.5
Persons (000)	198.5	248.0	446.5

Source: Table 3.3 Ageing in Ireland 2007 (CSO, 2007)/ CSO Census of Population

2. - Support for independent living

2.1 - Home help service

"The home help budget for 2007 was €207 million and 12,351,088 home help hours were delivered. The average monthly number of clients receiving hours in 2007 was 53,451. Some 54,736 clients were receiving home help hours at the end of 2007 compared with 49,578 recipients at the end of 2006."

Source: Page 28, Annual Report 2007 (HSE, 2008)

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2.2 - Home Care Support Packages

"A total of 11,565 people benefited from home care packages for some period of time during 2007. Some 6,279 of these were new clients who were helped to stay in their own homes and communities. At the end of the year there were 8,205 people receiving home care packages."

Source: Page 28, Annual Report 2007 (HSE, 2008)

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2.3 - Housing Adaptation Grant Schemes

"Following a review of the Disabled Persons and Essential Repairs Grant Schemes, a revised framework of housing adaptation grant schemes, to assist older people and people with a disability with their accommodation needs, was introduced in November 2007. The new schemes involve a more streamlined operation to ensure the most efficient and cost-effective outcomes from the funding available."

Source: Page 25, Annual Report 2007 (Department of Environment, Heritage and Local Government, 2008)

Further information is available in Appendix 3 of "Delivering Homes Sustaining Communities" - to be added.

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2.4 - Rent Supplement for over 65s

	Numbers
Age Group
65 - 69	1,034
70 plus	1,336
Total	2,370

Source: Table H 14 "Statistical Information on Social Welfare Services 2007" (Department of Social and Family Affairs, 2008)

Note: The above information is extracted from Table H 14 which also includes information on the duration of the rent supplement.

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2.5 - Day Care Centres

The HSE's National Service Plan 2009 states that there are 21,300 day care places being provided for older people by the HSE and that 21,645 are expected for 2009. At present the HSE does not provide stats for how many people benefit from these places but states that this data will be collected in 2009.

Source: Page 69 "National Service Plan 2009" (HSE, 2009)

Note: Please note that on page 8 of the "The Role and Future Development of Day Services for Older People in Ireland (National Council on Ageing and Older People, Report No. 74, 2003) there is a discussion of the definition of a ‘day care place’ which is ‘one day’s care per person per week’ and that this implies that a day care centre than can accommodate twenty people per day is deemed to provide 100 places. The NCAOP recommends that the term ‘day service place’ be addressed.

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3. - Carers

3.1 - Carer's Allowance for the over 65s

Age Group	Male	Female	Total
65 - 69	516	2,084	2,600
70-74	290	1,277	1,567
75-79	162	578	740
80 years and over	125	203	328
Total for 65 year olds and over	1,093	4,142	5,235
Total for all age groups (from under 25s to 80 years and over)	6,597	26,470	33,067

Source: Table E 8 "Statistical Information on Social Welfare Services 2007" (Department of Social and Family Affairs, 2008)

Note: The above information is extracted from Table E8 which also includes information on age groups from under 25 and upwards in five year age groups.

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3.2 - Carer's Benefit for the over 65s

Age Group	Male	Female	Total
65 - 69	2	7	9
70-74	-	-	-
75-79	-	-	-
80 years and over	-	-	-
Total for 65 year olds and over	2	7	9
Total for all age groups (from under 25s to 80 years and over)	272	1,808	2,080

Source: Table E 8 "Statistical Information on Social Welfare Services 2007" (Department of Social and Family Affairs, 2008)

Note: The above information is extracted from Table E8 which also includes information on age groups from under 25 and upwards in five year age groups.

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3.3 - Respite Care Grant for the over 65s

Age Group	Male	Female	Total
65 - 69	712	2,718	3,430
70-74	578	1,914	2,492
75-79	406	1,080	1,486
80 years and over	347	571	918
Total for 65 year olds and over	2,043	6,283	8,326
Total for all age groups (from under 25s to 80 years and over)	7,497	29,806	37,303

Source: Table E 8 "Statistical Information on Social Welfare Services 2007" (Department of Social and Family Affairs, 2008)

Note: The above information is extracted from Table E8 which also includes information on age groups from under 25 and upwards in five year age groups.

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3.4 - Carers aged 65 & over by unpaid help provided, 2006

	% of carers by sex
Hours of unpaid help provided per week	Males	Females	Persons
1-14	38.9	35.8	37.0
15-28	8.4	8.1	8.2
29-42	6.3	6.1	6.2
43 & over	46.4	50.0	48.6
Total	100.0	100.0	100.0
Total carers aged 65 & over	7,143	11,009	18,152

Source: Table 2.11 Ageing in Ireland 2007 (CSO, 2007)/ CSO Census of Population

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3.5 - Carers by age group, 2006

	% of age group
Age group	Males	Females	Persons
65-69	3.6	5.9	4.8
70-74	3.5	4.9	4.3
75-79	3.5	3.9	3.7
80-84	3.3	2.7	2.9
85 & over	2.5	1.5	1.8
65 & over	3.4	4.2	3.9
15-64	3.6	6.2	4.9

Source: Table 2.10 Ageing in Ireland 2007 (CSO, 2007)/ CSO Census of Population

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Footnotes

A communal establishment is a group of persons enumerated in a boarding house, hotel, guest house, hostel, barrack, hospital, nursing home, boarding school, religious institution, welfare institution, prison or ship, etc. A nonprivate household may include usual residents and/or visitors. However, proprietors and managers of hotels, principals of boarding schools, persons in charge of various other types of institutions and members of staff who, with or without their families, occupy separate living accommodation on the premises are classified as private households. ▲
A private household comprises either on person living alone or a group of people (not necessarily related) living at the same address with common housekeeping arrangements - that is, sharing at least one meal a day or sharing a living room or sitting room. It excludes non-private households such as nursing homes. ▲
A family unit or nucleus is defined as: 1) a husband and wife or cohabiting couple; or 2) a husband and wife or a cohabiting couple together with one or more usually resident never-married children (of any age); or 3) one parent together with one or more usually resident never-married children (of any age). Family members have to be usual residents of the relevant household. ▲