The Future of Care Funding: Time for a change

Caring Choices, a coalition of 15 organisations from across the long-term care system, sought to gather the views of older people, carers and others with direct experience of the system on how care should best be funded in the future. It was born out of widespread and growing concern that the current long-term care funding system is not fit for purpose. Throughout 2007, it has engaged with more than 700 individuals at events across England and Scotland and through an interactive website. The initiative – and this final report in particular – provides insights into potential areas of consensus as well as some of the difficult choices and trade-offs that will need to be made in order to create a funding system that is fair, effective and sustainable. The findings reported below came from the discussions at the Caring Choices events and from a survey of those attending the events, web visitors and a number of partner organisation contacts.