The Observer view on the urgent need for extra social care funding | Observer editorial

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

58% : It can be funded through an increase in taxation on wealthier individuals, as the TUC is calling for today.
57% : Commission after commission - from the royal commission on social care in 1999 to the Barker commission in 2014 - has recommended that the NHS principle should be extended to personal care in older age and shown that it is eminently affordable for a society as rich as ours.
53% : The principled case for free personal care is stronger in older age than for universal healthcare; very few people in their 30s and 40s feel inclined to imagine, plan and save for a future with dementia and the costs of care can be far more crippling than many other conditions whose associated costs are absorbed by the NHS.
52% : Instead, the government is proposing to reheat the 2014 capped cost model of social care that was shelved before its introduction.
45% : It is time to finally end the decades of political neglect of social care.

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