JRF proposes 'fairer' long-term care funding reforms

The report – Paying for long-term care – argues long-term care funding will eventually need a major overhaul with more public money, but it aims to demonstrate how improvements could begin immediately. Although the government is currently reviewing care costs and aims to feedback in 2007 with its Comprehensive Spending Review, the report says a new settlement would require many years of development and, in the meantime, some of the worst features of the present system need to be addressed. JRF’s five suggested reforms, which it says could be set in course now, are: Pilot a volunt...