Andrew Dilnot, who reviewed social care for coalition, expresses alarm at proposal that will mean elderly are ‘completely on their own’The chair of the long-term care commission has attacked the Conservatives’ plan to make more elderly people pay for social care, saying it would leave people “completely on their own” to deal with future costs. Sir Andrew Dilnot, the economist who reviewed social care for the coalition government in 2011, expressed alarm at the plans and claimed they showed a misunderstanding of the problem. Dilnot said such an approach failed to “tackle the biggest problem of all in social care, which is that at the moment people are faced with a position of no control”. That’s the market failure and these changes do nothing to address that.”The health secretary, Jeremy Hunt, confirmed the Conservatives were planning to abandon a previous manifesto pledge to cap care costs. We are saying that the assets that you build up over your lifetime should be used to pay for your own care costs.”

Source: The Guardian May 18, 2017 07:52 UTC