8. PSA AND DSO PERFORMANCE
8.1.17 DSO indicator 1.11 (Proportion
of older people aged 65 and over discharged from hospital
to their own home or to a residential or nursing care home or
extra care housing bed for rehabilitation who are at home or in
extra care housing or an adult placement scheme three months after
the date of their discharge from hospital) is a new indicator;
however, the Departmental Report 2009 gave no details of
how the Department planned to measure progress, as such plans
were yet to be finalised (p. 251). Is the Department now able
to say how it plans to measure progress against this indicator?
(Q108)
Answer
1. Progress of this new indicator will be
measured using the annual collection of data from councils with
adult social services responsibilities. There is no historical
data but provisional data were published on 13 August 2009 and
final data will be made available in early 2010.
2. The data showed 78.1% of people aged
65 and over were still at home 91 days following discharge
from hospital into rehabilitation/intermediate care where the
intention was for the client to return to their own home.
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