Care Articles

A year ago at Labour party conference, Harriet Harman launched Labour’s Commission on Older Women. This responded to the emergence of a new generation of active older women in their fifties and sixties who have led very different lives from their mothers. These are...

For a decade we have debated the future funding of social care. The debate has mainly focused on the key question – who should pay for care costs – the state or the individual? In this short piece I want to pose two issues in this debate – first, is this the right...

The ‘care crunch’ is likely to affect everyone at some stage in their life. At its foundation is the simple fact that we all want our loved ones to receive the best support to live as happily and healthily as possible. We are not ‘health’ or ‘social care’ but human...

According to the Daily Telegraph, senior government ministers are close to an agreement on capping care costs. They plan to make this a centrepiece announcement in the coalition’s midterm review in January. But if the Telegraph reports are correct, the cap will be set...