Long term care funding based on a fallacy - Report

'Past Caring? Widening the Debate on Funding Long Term Care', a report from the think tank, said that, while the partnership model, likely to be proposed by the Dilnot Commission, offers opportunities for a sustainable funding system, it suffers from 'the pot fallacy'. ILC said the fallacy assumes needs can be quantified by estimating the cost of meeting these needs. In reality, the existence of 'frontiers' within the economy of care - between care provision and health provision, between formal and informal carers, and between care and array of other services which feed into care deli...