Voters may want social care to be on the ballot at the UK general election, but no one seems to be listening.
Yes they are. You just need to be talking to a Liberal Democrat. It's part of the manifesto.
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Voters may want social care to be on the ballot at the UK general election, but no one seems to be listening.
Yes they are. You just need to be talking to a Liberal Democrat. It's part of the manifesto.
They're talking about assisted living facilities, for anyone lost in the pond.
Canadians get it. Many Americans, not so much.
We spend more in healthcare in our last year of life than we do in our the rest of our lives combined.
Why are we spending a fortune proping up these old wrecks when their quality of life is already shit?
It's the topic nobody wants to talk about. We want to live in the fantasy land where we can keep going forever.
It's a temporary first world problem. Either aging therapy breakthroughs will kick the can until after we destroy society some other way, or we'll try your Logan's Run thing (except by accident and even stupider than we're imagining)
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Britain’s adult social care sector has been in turmoil for as long as most can remember — soaring numbers of elderly people and chronic underfunding posing a public policy challenge met with a distinct lack of answers by several generations of politicians.
In March, the House of Commons Public Accounts Committee accused the current Conservative government of bringing the care sector “to its knees,” citing severe staffing shortages, rising waiting lists and uncertain finances.
In a statement, East Sussex Council said it has “a number of primary and secondary providers holding contracts for home care provision,” and that it strives to ensure residents “receive the appropriate support as quickly as possible.”
The Nuffield Trust described the party’s pledges as “commendable ambitions” which are “overshadowed by the lack of a costed plan for social care.” The Institute for Fiscal Studies, a respected non-partisan think tank, said Labour had provided “next to no detail on how or when these [reforms] would be implemented, or what final form they would take.”
The warm words echo Boris Johnson’s infamous ambitious but never-enacted 2019 social care plan, leading the party to run straight into the brick wall criticism during the election campaign of “why didn’t you do this before?”
Early on in the election campaign, Davey took part in a breakthrough interview with ITV News where he showcased his life juggling caring and work, tearing up as he spoke about the pressures of his competing roles.
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