Press Release about Saga Survey results highlighting the inadequacy of savings for long-term care needs – nearly 90% of people think it is important to save for both pensions and care needs in later life, but while half have pension savings, only 16% are saving anything for care – reform is needed.
Ros warns that Dilnot’s recommendations for a cap on care costs need to be taken seriously and Government must improve funding for care before the crisis becomes a catastrophe.
Press Release calling for the Government to take care reform seriously, with a cross-party agreement on future improvements to care funding.
Press Release calling for Government to take Dilnot’s recommendations seriously and act quickly to reform long-term care funding.
Ros wrote a blog for the Telegraph website commenting on the crisis in our care system, with tales of elderly neglect and care homes facing closure, and calling for improved care funding.
Press Release calling for proper protection of care home residents in the wake of upheavals and Southern Cross and better funding for long-term care.