How many older people there are in residential care and what the ratio is of trained staff to residents in (a) Scotland and (b) each local …

The number of people who live in older people’s care homes can be found in the following table:
Table: Number of residents in older people’s care homes as at 31 March 2010
Local Authority
Long stay residents
Short stay & respite residents
Total residents
Aberdeen City
1,435
26
1,461
Aberdeenshire
1,586
51
1,637
Angus
932
59
991
Argyll & Bute
499
15
514
Clackmannanshire
170
30
200
Dumfries & Galloway
971
35
1,006
Dundee City
923
36
959
East Ayrshire
786
21
807
East Dunbartonshire
388
13
401
East Lothian
565
20
585
East Renfrewshire
506
11
517
Edinburgh, City of
2,758
45
2,803
Eilean Siar
174
17
191
Falkirk
811
17
828
Fife
2,308
109
2,417
Glasgow City
3,601
145
3,746
Highland
1,646
61
1,707
Inverclyde
678
16
694
Midlothian
514
10
524
Moray
502
12
514
North Ayrshire
938
45
983
North Lanarkshire
1,695
100
1,795
Orkney Islands
102
15
117
Perth & Kinross
1,252
52
1,304
Renfrewshire
1,172
35
1,207
Scottish Borders
607
24
631
Shetland Islands
121
25
146
South Ayrshire
857
17
874
South Lanarkshire
2,324
131
2,455
Stirling
556
15
571
West Dunbartonshire
553
12
565
West Lothian
755
36
791
Scotland
32,685
1,256
33,941
Source: Scottish Care Home Census, March 2010



Note: Long-stay residents are those whose intention when they entered the home was to stay as a permanent resident, regardless of how long they stayed.
Respite residents are those whose predominant reason for admission was to provide respite or holiday relief for the resident and for their carer. Periods of respite will normally be short, overnight or for a weekend or a few weeks at the most.
Residents should be counted as short stay if:
their intention at admission was to stay less than six weeks; and
at the time of the census or their discharge they did in fact stay less than six weeks; and;
the predominant reason for admission was not respite care.
The ratio of trained staff to care home residents is not held centrally.