How should long-term care be funded? Where is the money to fund long-term care? As we move closer to the forthcoming Green Paper on Social Care, the ILC-UK has today published a new report that seeks to provide a complete overview and introduction to this topic, cataloging, summarising and evaluating every single major model of long-term care funding out there. Although debate often makes this assumption, these models are not mutually exclusive and can be combined in multiple ways. The theme of the paper is therefore: ‘building blocks’. Hopefully this turn of phrase will help to frame discussion of each model.

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