Economist Andrew Dilnot‘s independent review into how we pay for the care of older people and the disabled is published tomorrow. It will be read against a backdrop that almost daily seems to illustrate our incapacity to care for many of our old and vulnerable. Last week, in the most recent of a series of harrowing cases, Ashraff Jaddoo was struck off the nursing register for keeping a care home “no better than a kennel”. On Friday, an inquiry into the treatment of the terminally ill said that many, at the end of their lives, “do not get proper palliative care”. The numbers of people forced to sell their homes to pay for residential care, only to find themselves out of funds and facing the stress of not knowing what will happen next, regularly sends the message that growing older in dignity and peace is a luxury that many cannot afford. Change is urgently required.
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