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You and Yours: The Adult Social Care Crisis: Will it ever get fixed?

The Adult Social Care Crisis: Will it ever get fixed?

BBC Radio 4 - You and Yours, The Adult Social Care Crisis: Will it ever get fixed?

The crisis over who should be paying for the care of the elderly and disabled in the UK.

The hundreds of thousands of people across the UK going without the care they need and why their struggle is at the heart of the current NHS crisis. Who should be paying for care?

In a special edition of You and Yours today, we're looking at one big story - the hundreds of thousands of people across the UK who are going without the care they need. 
We speak to those who need care but can't, or have struggled, to get it. We hear from carers working on the frontline and we also look at funding options and explore housing solutions that might help to ease the crisis.
Our reporter, Carolyn Atkinson, is on location at a retirement village in Milton Keynes looking at lots of care options including some less obvious ones.
We have advice, too, on what to do if you, or someone you love, is going without care. We also delve into the history of social care going right back to the beginning of the NHS and the start of the welfare state in 1948.
During the programme, we'll be hearing from experts including Annabel James, Founder of Age Space, Jane Townson, CEO of the UK Homecare Association, Richard Humphries, author of the book, Ending the Social Care Crisis: A New Road to Reform, and Sally Warren, Director of Policy at The Kings Fund.
We'll also be speaking to Helen Whately, the Care Minister, about what the Government plans to do to fix social care once and for all.
 




Presenter: Winifred Robinson
Producer: Tara Holmes

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