Housing for Varying Needs Review - Aberdeen City Council

Housing for Varying Needs ReviewIn 2008/2009 Aberdeen City Council integrated the Home Care and ShelteredHousing Warden Services so that we could provide a quicker and moreflexible response to tenants whose care and support needs change. This isknown as extra care and describes the function of the integrated service.Importantly this does not change the category of housing residents live in; itremains sheltered or very sheltered housing.Question 5 - Have you or your spouse/partner benefitted from thisenhanced onsite service?Figure 5Yes42%No58%(n=1252 respondents)Figure 5 tells us that almost 60% of respondents do not think that they or theirpartners have benefitted from the new service. 42% think they have.Note; There are problems with this question as firstly, it asks about twoseparate individuals (you and your spouse) and this may confuses theresponse i.e.what happens if you feel you have benefitted but yourpartner hasn’t? and secondly, it has been identified as a leadingquestion…using the words ‘benefitted’ and ‘enhanced’ means thequestion is bias, although this was not the intention.82