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"There 800,000 older people who need care, but do not receive it"
Originally posted by 5corpio
It is quite a challenge to attempt radical reform of social care in a period o It is painfully plain that the present arrangements for social care are in freefall. Age UK estimates that currently there are 800,000 older people who need care but do not receive it from the state, and this will increase to one million people by 2014.
No one involved in social care wants the status quo to continue. Inadequate funding and a chaotic legal framework have created the perfect storm in which those in the last years of their life are routinely failed by the system.
The most vulnerable members of our society often receive inadequate support or no support at all. Others find the only way to pay for the residential care they need is to sell the family home.
This situation is only going to get worse. Social care services are under growing pressure as a result of budgets that have seen investment in social care increase by only 0.1pc per year in real terms since 2004 and large cuts in central government support to local councils, and because demand is greater than ever – since 2004, the number of people over 85 has risen by two thirds.
There is also a general recognition that the diversity of our older population calls for a more flexible response in the provision of care. Reforms in public services and new models of service delivery are unavoidable. It is also broadly accepted that we need tof public spending entrenchment. Yet now is also a good time....Read more on this Story: - Telegraph
No one involved in social care wants the status quo to continue. Inadequate funding and a chaotic legal framework have created the perfect storm in which those in the last years of their life are routinely failed by the system.
The most vulnerable members of our society often receive inadequate support or no support at all. Others find the only way to pay for the residential care they need is to sell the family home.
This situation is only going to get worse. Social care services are under growing pressure as a result of budgets that have seen investment in social care increase by only 0.1pc per year in real terms since 2004 and large cuts in central government support to local councils, and because demand is greater than ever – since 2004, the number of people over 85 has risen by two thirds.
There is also a general recognition that the diversity of our older population calls for a more flexible response in the provision of care. Reforms in public services and new models of service delivery are unavoidable. It is also broadly accepted that we need tof public spending entrenchment. Yet now is also a good time....Read more on this Story: - Telegraph