Inter-Sectoral Cost Comparisons
Day Care for the Elderly
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2112848 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mel Knapp (0000-0003-1427-0215), Martin Knapp, Spyros Missiakouli (0000-0002-5174-6481), Spyros Missiakoulis |
| Year | 1982 |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 335-354 |
| Publication date | 1982-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Social Policy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0047-2794 • E-ISSN: 1469-7823 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0047279400011934 |
| PMID | 10309689 |
| OpenAlex | W2049676471 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 7 |
It is often argued that there are significant differences in the costs of providing public and non-public services. However, these arguments have almost invariably been based on crude comparisons of bald expenditure figures of rather dubious validity. In this paper we describe and apply a conceptual framework which attempts to place such inter-sectoral comparisons on a more reliable basis. Our application is to day care services for elderly people provided by local authority social services departments, area health authorities and voluntary organizations, although the framework has much wider relevance. Our results provide clear evidence to refute the oft-made assumption that voluntary services are universally cheaper than their statutory counterparts. Standardizing costs for the dependency characteristics of users and the activities of day units, we find that voluntary-statutory cost differences are dependent upon the scale of operation. Small voluntary units certainly enjoy a cost advantage, but larger voluntary units are unlikely to be cheaper, and are probably more expensive, than local authority units of a similar scale
Business · Conceptual framework · Economic growth · Economics · Health care · Political science · Public economics · Public expenditure · Public finance · Relevance (law) · Scale (ratio) · Social Welfare · Sociology · Statutory law · Turnover · Voluntary sector · Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes · Healthcare innovation and challenges · Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving · Law
Cost Information and Residential Care of the Elderly
On the determination of the manpower requirements of old people's homes
The Relative Costs of Services Provided by Voluntary and Statutory Organizations
Topics in Applied Econometrics
Cost variations in Scottish adult training centres
The Measurement of Outcome in Social Care of the Elderly
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,07 |
| Citation span | 1983 - 1993 (11) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |