Long Term Care

A squeeze on services for older people in the long-term care system has been revealed by a survey of social care budgets.

New legislation to reform the long-term care system has been set out in the Queen's Speech.

PROTECTION

Property has overtaken the State, pensions and savings to become the most likely means of funding long-term care, according to research.

Stephen Lowe looks at the current raft of long term care reforms

In February, the Society of Later Life Advisers (SOLLA) held their first conference called ‘The Value of Advice.' Joint chair Tish Hanifan talks to Fiona Murphy about long term care advice and the impact of the forthcoming care cap

Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne has brought the social care spending cap forward to 2016 to protect funding above £72,000.

Local authorities should only recommend regulated financial advisers to people requiring advice on funding their long-term care, an influential committee has recommended.

Symponia has called today's social care announcement "a clever pre-Budget manoeuvre" designed to divert attention away from the ailing coalition.

Chancellor George Osborne is to bring forward the introduction of the flat-rate state pension and the cap on social care by a year.