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The care system helps elderly and disabled people with day-to-day tasks, such as washing, dressing, eating and medications.

It is failed Under Pressure in the UK after previous governments, the reform or the Fund of the Council-run system properly.

experts believe that the problems are so acute that politicians who ignore the issue in this election, does so at their own risk.

The System is now means across The Four Nations, what the parties need to develop solutions that are unique in their region.

1. Thousands less Pflegebedürftigeim contrast to the NHS, social care has been tested to be a medium. You can get help from your local authority, you must have a very high need, and, in England and Northern Ireland , savings and assets of less than £23,250; in Wales, the threshold is £24,000. Scotland operates a different system.

Since 2010, The Number of elderly people has questions for Council, aid has increased, but less now qualify for support in their own homes or in care facilities.

The Charity Age Uk estimates there are 1. 5 million people in England who need a little help with day-to-day life, but it does not get.

The Number of people receiving long-term support by the councils

England , 65 years of age and older

source: Nhs Digital , between 2014 and 2015, there were changes in the methodology, i.e. the numbers are not directly comparable. 2. Not only an elderly issue, The Debate focuses on the increasing number of older people, but The Number of working age adults are in need of assistance is also increasing.

A third of people with long-term support in England are between the ages of 18 and 65, but the Cost for their care is around half of the total social care budget. This is because they often require more intensive and therefore more expensive - support.

Average weekly Cost of a nursing home by age groups and disabilities

£s, the Cost to local authorities in England

source: the Nhs Digital by 2018-19The councils can help pay up to £2,000 per week or more, someone who, for example, has learning difficulties or a long-term physical condition. To build, In many cases, the people have not been able to work up savings or assets.

3. The financing is lower than 2010Trotz the growing demand, the expenses are still 5% lower than a decade ago, because the councils in England had The Money they receive from Central government cut by almost half.

Although the councils have partially offset that loss by raising local taxes, you still have almost 30% less money for all public services.

" Local authorities have to protect tried, in General, spending on adult social care, and the government has additional short-term money in the last few years.

Local authority expenditure on social care

England , real-time conditions spend per adult

source: Nhs Digital , ONSDie Local Government Association, says councils remain under intense financial pressure.

4. Charges for care differ in Englanddie fees paid by local authorities for care homes, both in a person's own home or care, will vary enormously, depending on where you live.

But across the country, the companies and charities that do not complain about these services that the councils are for the actual Cost of the care.

5. People who do not qualify for free care, more pressure on Council funds in England to pay means that people who pay for themselves, are often the tail lights of the care system.

In 2016, competition control, self-funders have to pay 41% more in fees, as a territorial entity or authority is established.

How much more do have to pay self-funders for care?

England , 2017, Average weekly Cost for residential care

source: competition and markets authority increasingly-care-warn businesses that you would go out of business, without private customers are available The System of subsidising.

Many of those self-funders have to pay ended up selling their family home for their care. It is one of the reasons why many consider the current system as unjust.

6. Scotland spends The Most per perso nall care systems in the UK are always different in the way they work, with England the least generous.

For example, in Wales, no one, who is eligible for Home Care is expected to more pay, as £90 per week.

In Northern Ireland , no one over the age of 75 years pays for the nursing home.

Scotland provides free personal care for people assessed to ensure how you need support, no matter what age. In a nursing home, the people earn £177 a week against the fees, but if you have savings or assets of over £28,000 you will have to Finance The Remaining costs.

Annual per capita expenditure on social care in Great Britain

£s

source: Foundation for Health , these differences are reflected in the amount of money each nation spends per person on social care. There are no comparable data for Northern Ireland .

7. An aging population is causing problems the UK has an ageing population and the pressure on the care system will only increase. To live while the life is More Than a positive, many older people develop Health conditions, which means that you need help with day-to-day.

For example, The Number of people expected to be with dementia in the UK.

Percentage of the population according to age groups

Past and projected population in the UK

source: ONSDie Alzheimer's society estimates that, without local authority help a Person with dementia usually have 100,000 pounds to spend in the care you need.

For a long time, as someone who developed the disease is to cover your own costs until your assets reduce to £23,250 - the threshold for qualifying for local authority help, in England .

8. Lack of social support leads to problems for the NHSEs is a knock-on effect for the Health service-if the care system is the support of a few people, and only those with the highest requirements.

Someone is struggling to cope on their own is an autumn or tend to neglect themselves, which means they end up in the emergency room departments.

Then, when you are ready to leave the hospital, can result in a lack of social care in the community, to cut off from the world in a hospital bed for More Than necessary.

hospital beds occupied by people who don' t since

England , days in millions of

source: the NHS, Digital, year, until the end of March this is why experts say that The Future of the NHS is tied to the creation of an effective social care system. must be

9. Not enough nursing staff to find enough people willing to take on themselves, to look at the challenging, but rewarding work, after people in their own homes or in care facilities, is a constant problem.

there are 122,000 points - just under 8% for The Social care workforce in England .

Social care job vacancies

England

source: Skills for care almost a quarter of the 1 increase. 5 million people work in the sector are on zero-hour contracts (if the employee is not guaranteed a full working day in the week), and often pay the minimum wage.

Many argue that the improvement of the pay and skills of the workforce is crucial to think of to encourage people, care work as a career. Increasingly, social care workers carrying out tasks that would once have been that of trained nurses.

10. Social care the political agendadie Reform of the care is insidiously system is fought on a question of Political Parties for the votes.

Since 1997, More Than a dozen requests, and the reports of the government were. a variety of ideas for the funding of social care in the longer term

In England , none of these ideas have led to change. It is a complicated system that few understand, and in the last elections, the issue has become a political football.

In the 2010 election, labour's plans for reform were referred to as a "death tax". In the 2017 election, Conservative plans for a "dementia tax were labeled,".

But, as Health Minister Matt Hancock has said that Brexit is currently on The Agenda to be dominated, fought, the plans for the Reform of the care, the "bandwidth" in the government.

elderly people, social care

Source of news: bbc.com