SINGLE MEASURE

Amount of money spent on care home

Sweep Title: Wave 8
Dataset: English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA)

Question(s)

In total, roughly how much did you have to pay for nursing or residential care home │fees [in the last
│two years/since last interview]? Do not include costs that were paid by │the NHS, your local authority or
│social services, but do include costs that were paid │for on your behalf by friends or family, or by
│private insurance

Response scale

INTERVIEWER: ENTER COSTS IN £”: 0..9999997

Participant age 50 - 120
Starts January 2016
Ends January 2017
Provision OR Receipt OR Need? Receipt;
Informant: Participant
Multiple rater? No
Reporting Term Past two years
Standard instrument? No
Measure ID ELSA-1226