Statistics and registers
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Regular home care
The Statistical Report concerning the count provides information
on the number of clients receiving regular home care and the
services they have received. Furthermore, it gives various
information on clients in home-help services and home nursing,
including their age structure, need for care, required place of
care, reasons for the start of service recipiency and previous
places of care. The data are given partly by municipality, partly
at the level of the whole country. The count of home-care clients
has been conducted since 1995. In the form of online publications,
statistical reports are available from 1999 onwards.
Count of Regular Home-Care Clients, 30.11.2010
The percentage of older people regularly receiving home-care
services increased slightly on the year before. At the end of
November 2010, 11.9 per cent of the population aged 75 and over
were receiving home-care services on a regular basis. The
proportion varied between different regions, between 9.3 and 15.0
per cent.
People in need of continuous 24-hour care accounted for 6.0 per
cent of all regular home-care clients. In the different regions,
the percentage of people in need of continuous 24-hour care varied
between 4.3 per cent and 22.9 per cent. Just under a quarter
(22.8%) of clients receiving home-care services had had more than
60 visits a month. There are considerable differences between
regions in the number of visits. There was a great deal of
variation in the number of visits even to the most elderly
clients.
More than half (56.5%) of clients entered regular home care
directly from home. Just over a quarter (26.7%) of the clients came
from a hospital or health centre. In most cases, the reason for
admission was physical (25.3%) or neglect of personal care
(27.1%).
It was estimated by the staff that a great majority (84.2%) of
clients had received the treatment best suited to their needs, that
is, home care. It was further determined that 3847 clients (5.6%)
could manage at home by themselves, without regular home-care
services.
Figure 1. Regular home-care clients aged 75 and over as a
proportion of the total population of the same age, 1995-2010
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Source of information:
Kotihoidon laskenta 30.11.2010 - Klientinventering inom hemvården
30.11.2010 - Count of Regular Home-Care Clients on 30 November of
2010
Statistical Report 22/2011, 30th June 2011.
Official Statistics of Finland, Social Protection 2011. THL.
Further information:
Päivi Tossavainen tel. +358 29 524 7670
Raija Kuronen tel. +358 29 524 7477
E-mail: firstname.lastname@thl.fi |
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Published 28.6.2006, Updated
9.5.2012
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