Age UK Articles

We are all living longer, but the full implications of this are only beginning to dawn on us, and nowhere is this more apparent than with social care. In the UK the number of people aged 65 and over are projected to rise by nearly 50 per cent in the next 20 years,...

Emphasising the insurance principle is key to winning public support for tough choices on social care, says Peter Kellner Here is the dream: most of us want a system of social care that is generous to older people who need it, but does not cost the public purse so...

Labour can show itself ready to govern by taking tough decisions on paying for the country’s care needs With George Osborne’s admission last autumn that the coalition will fail to meet its self-imposed target of eliminating the deficit by 2015 threatening to extend...