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Long term care of the elderly
— shaping the future | | Author(s) | Stephen Dorrell, David Lipsey, Julia Neuberger, Derek Wanless, Norman Warner |
| Corporate Author | Social Market Foundation - SMF |
| Publisher | Social Market Foundation, on behalf of the authors, London, March 2010 |
| Pages | 6 pp |
| Source | SMF, 11 Tufton Street, London SW1P 3QB. Download from website: http://www.smf.co.uk/assets/files/Shaping%20the%20... |
| Keywords | Services ; Domiciliary services ; Long term ; Costs [care] ; Social policy ; England. |
| Annotation | Reform of the way in which we fund long-term care for older people in England is long overdue. To be effective, such reform needs to be based on cross-party agreement, so that those needing care, their families, and care providers can be confident that changes will survive any changes of government. For these reasons, this issue is unsuited to partisan divide and sudden changes of policy. People need to be able to plan for the long term with confidence. The co-authors - Stephen Dorrell MP, Lord Lipsey, Baroness Neuberger, Sir Derek Wanless and Lord Warner - drawn from all three major political parties, unite to call for cross-party agreement as the way to achieve social care reform. The five experts have supported their call with a statement of ten shared principles on which agreement could be based, and have called on all political parties to work together on this vital issue with stakeholders in the social care sector. This document presents these principles which represent common ground that exists on reform. The first two principals state: 1. The funding of social care in the future will need to be a partnership between the state and individuals; and 2. Risk-pooling is the only credible basis of reform. The authors acknowledge the support of Bupa Care Services and the Social Market Foundation (SMF) in the production of this document. (KJ/RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-100308204 E |
| Classmark | I: N: 4Q: QDC: TM2: 82 * |
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