Older people are paying the price for cuts to social care The care and support older people receive increasingly depends on where they live and how much money they have rather than their needs, according to a new report by The King’s Fund and the Nuffield Trust.
Six consecutive years of cuts to local authority budgets, rising demand for services and shortages of staff have left the social care system increasingly unable to meet the needs of the older people who depend on it. The report finds that this is placing an unacceptable burden on unpaid carers and is leaving rising numbers of older people who have difficulty with the basic activities of daily living – such as washing, dressing and getting out of bed – without any support at all. The King's Fund
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Six consecutive years of cuts to local authority budgets, rising demand for services and shortages of staff have left the social care system increasingly unable to meet the needs of the older people who depend on it. The report finds that this is placing an unacceptable burden on unpaid carers and is leaving rising numbers of older people who have difficulty with the basic activities of daily living – such as washing, dressing and getting out of bed – without any support at all. The King's Fund
See also:
- Social care for older people: Home truths (report) The King's Fund
- Home truths: are older people paying the price for social care cuts? The King's Fund
- When social care is cut the NHS bleeds NHS Providers
- Care for elderly 'increasingly rationed' in England BBC News
- How the care system works across the UK BBC News
- Care costs BBC News
- The alternatives to traditional care BBC News
- Elderly care shortages now the ‘burning injustice’ facing Theresa May’s Britain The Daily Telegraph
- Elderly Britons bearing brunt of cuts to social care, report warns The Guardian
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