Elderly care crisis claims a million family homes

The estimate, based on polling measuring families’ individual experiences, is far higher than Government projections have previously suggested.

But charities and pensions experts said it represented one of the first realistic attempts to quantify the scale of the hidden care funding crisis in the UK.

And they claimed that it showed that the Government’s long-awaited overhaul of the social care system in England – including the introduction of a cap on bills – does not go far or fast enough to address the crisis thousands of families are facing.

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