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Sat Feb 15, 2014 12:49 am
Overall, some sort of 'communal self help' may be the only answer. Rather than try and hit the government over the head repeatedly to adequately fund caring, carers will probably have to club together in some way, to share the load.
When my son was a baby, I shared a nanny with another couple - neither of us could have afforded a nanny of our own, but we could (just!) afford to share one. One nanny could cope with two babies.
Would the economics of caring work the same way, I wonder? Or even scale up, so that, say, three carers could look after six carees (not sure what the ratio of carer to caree is commercially in care homes?)
For the older generation of course, the real problem is 'long life, but not good health' -
In a way, ironically, the NHS is to blame - intervening to stop nature taking its course....
(I wonder, though, if longevity is lower in somewhere like the USA, where there is no NHS? I don't think it is, though. So something must be providing medical intervention somehow.)