A demographic timebomb

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As the long term care sector continues to bask in political prominence, Stephen Burke clarifies the main issues for Paul Robertson

It is a given that sectors in financial markets work within a framework formed through the various pressures impacting on the product group. For the majority the biggest impacts will be regulation and market forces. Certainly no sector has pressures that the long term care sector has. An intense and intensifying political debate is impacting on a system that nobody would say is working well and which many feel is close to crisis point as inexorable demographic forces crush against fragile finances. However the sector shapes itself in future it is likely to hold a space for the provision ...

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