How many people over 65 were in receipt of care (a) home and (b) at home services in each year since 2007.

a) Information on care home residents is reported on through the Care Home Census, published by Public Health Scotland (PHS). Information is published on a rolling 10-year basis; therefore, the figures below have been sourced from multiple Care Home Census publications. This includes historic extracts of publications from NHS Information Services Division, prior to the creation of Public Health Scotland. The Care Home Census was not run in 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Table 1: The estimated number of care home residents aged 65+ years, 2007 – 2022
Year
Estimated Number of Care Home Residents aged 65+ years
2007
31,522
2008
30,954
2009
31,378
2010
31,384
2011
31,653
2012
31,295
2013
30,985
2014
31,354
2015
30,768
2016
31,197
2017
30,570
2018
29,654
2019
30,419
2020
n/a
2021
28,602
2022
28,647
b) Information on the number of people aged 65+ years who receive care at home services has been collected by Public Health Scotland and published as part of their Insights In Social Care publication since 2018. Prior to this, data was collected by Scottish Government through the Social Care Survey from 2013 – 2017 and the Home Care Census prior to 2013. Therefore, changes between years should be interpreted with caution due to the differences between data sources, particularly between 2016/17 and 2017/18.
Table 2: The estimated number of people aged 65+ years receiving care at home services, 2006/07 – 2021/22
Year
Estimated number of people aged 65+ years receiving care at home services
2006/07
56,700
2007/08
55,340
2008/09
54,720
2009/10
53,660
2010/11
51,730
2011/12
51,120
2012/13
50,370
2013/14
50,440
2014/15
50,160
2015/16
48,920
2016/17
48,800
2017/18
46,610
2018/19
48,590
2019/20
47,065
2020/21
47,465
2021/22
44,640