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The Foundation's goal is to improve the wellbeing of low earners in today's mixed economy. We aim to deliver change in areas where this income group is currently disadvantaged, by producing new research and actively engaging in the policy-making process.
Long term care
The Foundation's current stream of work focuses on long term care for older people. As with all our work, we take a particular interest in how low earners fare in this mixed market of funding and provision.
Recently completed research projects include:
- An investigation into low earners' experiences and perceptions of the care market, based on a combination of literature reviews and new polling, focus group and interview data.
- An analysis of the long term care system to produce an holistic "market map", identifying weaknesses in the market which can be modelled to take into account future demographic and policy trends.
- A series of policy development projects using a range of quantitative and qualitative studies, stakeholder workshops and desk research investigating solutions to the weaknesses of the long term care market Navigating care: To establish who needs help navigating the long term care market and what services currently exist in order to identify gaps
Innovation and Efficiency in Long-Term Care: To find out how care providers can be more innovative and efficient and what obstacles they face in meeting these objectives
Local Market Shaping: To examine the different ways that Local Authorities and “market shapers” of the future ensure care markets deliver sufficient volume, diversity, quality and affordability in care
Funding: Examining the range of individual and collective care funding options available, and how these might be developed to meet future challenges
- Consultation on a “vision” and architecture of a fair and efficient long term care market.
Options for a vision and architecture of a future care system and findings from the four policy development projects will be launched and disseminated on 8 December 2008.
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