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    • Sep 26, 2023

How Many Pay for their Own Care

37% of care home residents, a total of 137,480 people were self-funding their care costs based on data to March 2023 from the Office of National Statistics (ONS). This is a 9.2% increase on the previous year.


Source: Office of National Statistics (ONS)

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