Key issues
Demand for social care services will continue to grow as a result of better diagnosis, higher survival rates for premature babies and longer life expectancies.
The current prevalence rates for North Tyneside highlight:
- Higher provision of extra care housing compared to comparative local authority areas and national averages.
- Similar prevalence rates for retirement/sheltered housing compared with comparative local authority areas and national averages.
- Significantly lower provision of residential care compared to comparative local authority areas and national averages.
- Higher provision of nursing care compared to comparative local authority areas and national averages
Nationally around half of the expenditure is on working-age adults, with the other half on people aged 65 years or over. For older people, the majority of spending (65%) is for those who need physical support, while for workingage adults, the majority (68%) is for those with learning disabilities.
The increasing needs should be considered in line with national challenges (outside the scope of this JSNA) of increasing cost of social care provision, and challenges to the size and availability of the social care workforce.