The debate about the future of care has been formally launched by the Government. For many people, of course, the debate has been raging for years. We now have the chance to turn these private concerns about care and support for older people into a huge public movement for change.
Critical to winning change will be ensuring that the debate is everybody’s business. It affects us all. We are all getting older, we may need care at some point in our lives or we may be a carer for a loved one.
So it’s vital that everybody contributes to the debate. Counsel and Care is supporting the debate through conferences, our VotingAge project, ElderCare Week on 1-7 September, and through this new blog.
Carers Week on 9-15 June provides another opportunity to highlight the key issues. There will be events all round the country, and it’s a good time to promote advice and information for older people and their carers. It is expected that the Prime Minister’s review of the national carers strategy will be published during the week.
Counsel and Care has highlighted some key principles for better care and support for older people, their families and carers. A new system must be simple, fairer, consistent, transparent and flexible. It must also be ambitious, universal and well resourced if it’s going to meet the demographic pressures and the growing expectations of this and future generations. We will be working with our partners to ensure that all older people and their carers get the right care and the right deal.
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2 comments:
I'm not sure how the process announced today is any different from the Green Paper announced in October 2007 which was looking at ways of financing long term care for older people. Of course there has to be a change in the method of funding but this has been debated for many years and I'm not sure where the Wanless Report fits into the process.
There can't be any 'solution' if the intention is to be 'zero-cost'. I don't know how many consultations the government intends on having before they get the results they actually want. There will have to be some kind of contributory factor in social care because there just isn't the money in the system for care to be sustainable in any other way.
Personally, I'd like to see some of the profiteering and contracting-out taken out of the care system. While agencies are determined to make profit, a best quality of service can't be achieved.
A shame this hasn't picked up over the past couple of months..
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