Charity’s social care scorecard outlines “calamitous” cuts to older people’s care

Older social care is in “calamitous, quite rapid decline” according to Age UK, a leading charity which has drawn together existing figures to provide an overall picture of the system.

Age UK has brought together and analysed the previously published figures and research on social care spending and the number of older people receiving care, to create what is being referred to as a social care “scorecard”.

Age UK’s charity director, Caroline Abrahams said she believed the scorecard laid bare the “devastating” realities of the state of the care system, by pulling together stark figures from 22 separate datasets.

She said: “Policymakers owe it to the public, older people especially, to confront the crisis in social care and its consequences.

“Above all, this scorecard makes clear that for any policymaker to acknowledge the need for investment in the NHS while omitting to mention social care is not good enough.”

To read the full story, please see the communitycare.co.uk website: http://www.communitycare.co.uk/2015/01/21/charitys-social-care-scorecard-outlines-calamitous-state-older-care/