Truly successful care homes will be those that fully engage with their local communities, resulting in rising standards, new social venues and fantastic publicity for the homes themselves, says Debbie Harris, founder of Chosen with Care
There’s a growing conundrum that we have to face as care industry professionals or potential residents –and let’s not be under any illusions, we are all potential residents. It relates to where we are going to go and how are we going to live when we can no longer be independent.
Data from 2014 reveals that 11.6 million people aged over 65 (more than those aged under 18) and over 14,450 centenarians were living in the UK at that time – a rise of 72 per cent in the past decade.
From those figures alone, it seems reasonable to conclude that more people will be reliant on care – and for several years. Of course, that’s before we consider the increasing number of people with dementia; in 2014 over 850,000 people in the UK were living with the condition, of whom 91 per cent were aged over 65. By 2025 the number is likely to exceed one million – almost 10 per cent of the over 65s –and by 2051 it will hit two million. Just think of the pressure those figures will present to the care home sector.
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