Care in crisis 2012

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The recent history of funding

There is serious underspend on older people’s social care. Spend on older people’s care stagnated and then decreased between 2005-06 and 2011-12. Yet the number of people aged over 85, the age group who are most likely to need care, has increased by over 250,000 since 2004-05. As a result each year unmet need has increased as people are excluded from accessing services or see their care packages reduced.
Councils have cut back on their service provision. In 2...