Marie Curie response to forecasting care needs study

Scott Sinclair, Head of Policy and Public Affairs at Marie Curie, said:

“Today’s study from the Lancet shows that action is urgently needed to ensure that the most vulnerable people are rightly and fairly supported in the UK.

For people approaching the end of life, social care is an essential part of ensuring that they can be cared for in their own home or communities if that is where they want to be. Social care is already badly overstretched and with our ageing population this pressure is only set to grow.

For too long government has failed to act on social care, but government can no longer afford to bury its head in the sand. Social care must be given the resources it needs to cope with rising demand; the quality of life and dignity of people with terminal illnesses is at stake.”

To read the study, please click here