What facilitates and impedes decision-making about a move to a care home?
Background
We are interested in developing the data and research evidence around adult care homes and care home residents. The adult care home sector in Scotland provides care for adults and older people, individuals with learning and physical disabilities, neurological conditions, mental health conditions and brain injury. Some care homes also provide intermediate care and respite services for people on a temporary basis. Across each of these groups the health and care needs of those living in adult care homes is becoming more complex and requires more specialist interventions.
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This question was published as part of the set of ARIs in this document:
Social Care Analytical Unit Areas of Research Interest 2026 2029 published 25 March 2026
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Related UKRI funded projects
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Embedding Outcomes in Homecare Re-ablement for Older People in North Lanarkshire
This project aims to investigate the potential for and most effective means of implementing evidence (formal research studies, practitioner wisdom and user and carer perspectives) about outcomes in the context of home ca...
Funded by: ESRC
Lead research organisation: University of Strathclyde
Why might this be relevant?
This project specifically focuses on outcomes in home care re-ablement, which is relevant to decision-making about a move to a care home.
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Learning disability and dementia - supporting transition to a care home
The longer life expectancy now enjoyed by most people with a learning disability is to be celebrated, for example people with Down's syndrome may now live to their 60s, a big step forward from the 1980s when life expecta...
Funded by: ISCF
Lead research organisation: University of Stirling
Why might this be relevant?
This project addresses the transition to a care home for people with a learning disability and dementia, which is directly related to the question.
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CareLineLive
In the next 30 years the number of over 75s in the UK will double. According to Age UK, more than 30% of elderly needing care will not get a bed in a care home. Global demand for home care is growing at between 3% and 8%...
Funded by: Innovate UK
Lead research organisation: MAS NETWORKS LTD
Why might this be relevant?
The project focuses on home care management, which is related to care home decision-making but does not directly address the specific factors facilitating or impeding such decisions.