Chamber and committees

The number of people who live in older people’s care homes can be found in the following table:

Table: Number of residents in older people’s care homes as at 31 March 2010

Note: Long-stay residents are those whose intention when they entered the home was to stay as a permanent resident, regardless of how long they stayed.

Respite residents are those whose predominant reason for admission was to provide respite or holiday relief for the resident and for their carer. Periods of respite will normally be short, overnight or for a weekend or a few weeks at the most.

Residents should be counted as short stay if:

their intention at admission was to stay less than six weeks; and

at the time of the census or their discharge they did in fact stay less than six weeks; and;

the predominant reason for admission was not respite care.

The ratio of trained staff to care home residents is not held centrally.