Residential Care (Hansard, 16 January 1990)

HC Deb 16 January 1990 vol 165 c189W 189W

§ Mr. Andrew Bowden
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what proportion of persons aged over 75 years live in nursing homes.

§ Mr. Freeman
This information is not collected centrally.

§ Mr. Andrew Bowden
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what proportion of persons aged over 85 years live in(a) nursing homes, (b) residential homes and (c) other institutions in England and Wales.

§ Mr. Freeman
Not all this information is collected centrally. At 31 March 1988, the number of people aged 85 and over in local authority staffed and registered residential care homes for the elderly people and younger physically handicapped people was 100,036 or 15.4 per cent. of the population aged 85 and over. This figure is provisional.