Extra Care benefits to health / the NHS
Hi,
I'm currently involved with a Housing with Care scheme and need to quantify the benefits of Extra Care schemes to local health / the NHS. The type of data I'm looking for is, for example, if an Extra Care scheme of 100 units is built, we could expect xxx fewer hospital admissions per year, xxx fewer falls / broken hips per year etc. Please excuse the crude examples but hopefully they explain the type of data I'm looking for.
The search for data of this nature has thus far proved fruitless for me. Could anyone please advise is such data exists and, if so, where I will find it?
Kind regards,
Mick Green
Hi Mick,
I tried to find something similar a few years ago. The best I came up with was a study from the international longevity centre.
Kneale, D (2011) Establishing the Extra in Extra Care: Perspectives from three Extra Care Housing Providers,
International Longevity Centre
It's a very long read - below is what I condensed it down to at the time.
Kind regards
Sarah Johnson
In September 2011 the International Longevity Centre published research entitled ‘Establishing the Extra in Extra Care’8 which compared, over a 15 year period, the outcomes of extra care housing residents with a matched community sample of people receiving domiciliary care. The study identified the following findings:
•?The probablility of moving into institutional care is 37 – 50% lower within the first five years and 50
– 70% lower in the first two years.
Extra care residents are significantly less likely to experience a fall. As an indication of the benefits
of preventing falls the ILC report that falls resulting in a hip fracture are estimated to result, on
average, in a total societal cost of £28,665.
•?Among households who have care needs (at the point of move in and those who develop care
needs whilst liviing in extra care housing) 24% experience an improvement during the first five
years resulting in reduced care costs.
•?There is a lower level of hospitalisation among residents in extra care housing. Among those over
80, on average each resident spends 4.8 nights in hospital per year compared to 5.8 nights among a
matched sample living in the community.
•?Cost savings in relation to a lower incidence of hospitalisation, and reduced stays are estimated to
save around £512 per person per year.
Hi Sarah,
Really appreciate that - thanks very much for the detail.
Kind regards,
Mick