Parliament are due to vote this evening on the amendment to the
upcoming social care plans with further details on the cap on
social care costs.
James White, Head of Public Affairs and Campaigns at
Alzheimer’s Society, said: “While
we had welcomed the Government’s decision
to cure the care
system after decades
of neglect, the cap on
care costs is still worryingly
high with only one in five
people with dementia estimated to ever reach the proposed cap
limit. The devil’s
in the
detail with the exclusion
of major costs hitting
the less well off.
Any progress here feels like twosteps forwards, one
step back – social care
is sadly still an
afterthought, playing second
fiddle to our NHS.
“It’s social care, not the
NHS, people with dementia have to rely
on daily. The funding of care should be spread
between all of us in society – just like the
NHS and other public services. People with dementia are on their
knees – finding care difficult to access, costly,
inadequate and deeply unfair – the Government
must inject enough cash to improve quality and
make this a system we all want to grow old in. There’s a
historic opportunity to set this right, we encourage the
Government to properly grasp the nettle – while
dementia isn’t curable yet, the care system is.”
