Long-term care - Age, I do abhor thee

Well, the mists are beginning to clear and it is likely that in the face of a significant increase in the number of older people, especially in the very old, the settlement proposed by the Dilnot Commission on the Funding of Adult Social Care in England, due to report in July, will favour an innovative partnership proposal – ­possibly some sort of ‘capped-risk’ model. This will seek to include – at first voluntary and, if that doesn’t work, compulsory – contributions from everyone who can afford to pay something, however small. But in terms of care provision, what balance will be struck ...