Playing the waiting game on long-term care

After all the waiting and endless speculation, the election finally yielded a result common to Europe, but extremely rare in the UK: a coalition government. Most long-term care advisers were glum about the prospect. They feared the newly formed coalition would have more pressing concerns at the forefront of its mind, such as gaining control over the public finances, rather than focusing on the problem of providing care for the eldest members of society. The demographic time bomb afflicting Western societies is a well-known yet somehow neglected problem. It is common knowledge that ...