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The Problems with Social Care
funding gap
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£2.1 billion
By 2019/20
The social care funding gap – i.e. the gap between costs and revenue – is projected to reach £2.1bn by 2019/20.
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The Care Quality Commission (CQC) report that the current problems around the state of adult social care are:
• an ageing population with increased needs
• difficulties recruiting and retaining staff to care for people
• rising costs of adult social care
• funding to meet increasing needs and a reliance on those who pay for their own care. 184
An Ageing Population
• By the time people reach their late 80s, over 1 in 3 people have difficulty undertaking five or more activities of daily living unaided (like eating, bathing and dressing). 185
• The number of people aged 85 and over in England is set
186 to more than double over the next two decades.
Funding Social Care
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Despite a rapidly increasing demand because of the ageing population, there has been a £160 million cut in total public spending on older people’s social care in the last five years. 187
Carers are currently providing care worth £132 billion, the equivalent to the UK’s total healthcare annual spend, and over two million people have already given up work to care. 188
Constraints on funding have led to Councils providing care and support to fewer people and concentrating it on those with the highest needs. 189
Age UK estimates that an additional £4.8 billion a year is needed to ensure that every older person with unmet needs has access to social care, rising to £5.57 billion in 2020/21. 190
1 in 10 older people face future lifetime costs of over £100,000 for their social care needs. 191
The social care funding gap – i.e. the gap between costs and revenue – is projected to reach £2.1bn by 2019/20. 192
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