Politicians urged to face up to demographic timebomb

Politicians urged to face up to demographic timebomb
[18 October 2006 - The Guardian - UK] Social care must be forced back onto the political agenda to meet the needs of the baby boomer generation, a thinktank head warned today. Niall Dickson, who heads healthcare thinktank the King's Fund, said politicians had yet to seriously debate future social care provision as he argued the case for extra funding in light of changing demographics and client expectation. A landmark report commissioned by the King's Fund earlier this year concluded that social care funding for older people in England will have to treble to about £30bn a year by 2026 to meet the needs of the ageing baby boomer generation. More