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Question reference: S4W-01137

Asked by: Mary Fee, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 22 June 2011
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 21 July 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive how many older people there are in residential care and what the ratio is of trained staff to residents in (a) Scotland and (b) each local authority area.

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

Local Authority	Long stay residents	Short stay & respite residents	Total residents
Aberdeen City	1,435	26	1,461
Aberdeenshire	1,586	51	1,637
Angus	932	59	991
Argyll & Bute	499	15	514
Clackmannanshire	170	30	200
Dumfries & Galloway	971	35	1,006
Dundee City	923	36	959
East Ayrshire	786	21	807
East Dunbartonshire	388	13	401
East Lothian	565	20	585
East Renfrewshire	506	11	517
Edinburgh, City of	2,758	45	2,803
Eilean Siar	174	17	191
Falkirk	811	17	828
Fife	2,308	109	2,417
Glasgow City	3,601	145	3,746
Highland	1,646	61	1,707
Inverclyde	678	16	694
Midlothian	514	10	524
Moray	502	12	514
North Ayrshire	938	45	983
North Lanarkshire	1,695	100	1,795
Orkney Islands	102	15	117
Perth & Kinross	1,252	52	1,304
Renfrewshire	1,172	35	1,207
Scottish Borders	607	24	631
Shetland Islands	121	25	146
South Ayrshire	857	17	874
South Lanarkshire	2,324	131	2,455
Stirling	556	15	571
West Dunbartonshire	553	12	565
West Lothian	755	36	791
Scotland	32,685	1,256	33,941
Source: Scottish Care Home Census, 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.

Question reference: S4O-00019

Asked by: Mary Fee, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 01 June 2011
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 9 June 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has to improve bus services in rural and out-of-town areas.