HERE are eight factoids all about care homes.

  1. The average stay in a nursing home is two years and two months, compared to 362 days in a 1995/96 study.
  2. The average stay in a residential home is 852 days (two years, four months) compared to 815 days in a 1995/96 study.
  3. Residents have a 55% likelihood of living beyond the first year of admission.
  4. 27% of residents live beyond three years.
  5. Male survival rates are much lower than women’s, being about half the average.
  6. 57% of net council spending in England on social care for older people is on care home placements.
  7. Between 2000-08 the number of people in council-supported care homes in England reduced from 200,000 to 172,000.
  8. The average cost of a stay in a care home – based on a charge of £550 a week – would be £65,400.

 

Source: Bupa report January 2011