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Understanding need, unmet need, prevention, and early intervention in social care
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Understanding need, unmet need, prevention, and early intervention in social care
What are the barriers and enablers to the successful implementation of preventative and early intervention approaches in adult social care? How do these barriers vary for workforce, commissioners, and individuals receiving care?
Scottish Government Social Care, 2026
Understanding need, unmet need, prevention, and early intervention in social care
How will adult social care need change into the future given population changes? These kinds of population changes could include: increasing levels of multimorbidity (including in younger adults), changes in household structures / access to a carer (e.g. single person households, older people without children), and housing supply (e.g. rented accommodation which cannot be adapted).
Scottish Government Social Care, 2026
Understanding need, unmet need, prevention, and early intervention in social care
What are the factors associated with higher than average levels of unmet social care need and how strong are their effects? (e.g. household composition, geographic location, presence of specific conditions and/ or disabilities, equalities characteristics etc.)
Scottish Government Social Care, 2026
Understanding need, unmet need, prevention, and early intervention in social care
What is the level of social care need and unmet social care need amongst adults in Scotland, and how does it vary by demographic groups, client groups (e.g. older people, people with dementia, learning disabilities, physical and sensory disability , people at the end of life), people with multimorbidity, equalities protected characteristics, and geography?
Scottish Government Social Care, 2026
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