Michelle Mitchell: The challenge of reforming social care

Michelle Mitchell, Charity Director-General, Age UK, discusses the urgent need to reform the funding and delivery of social care in England. She outlines the difficulties of reforming adult social care; the possible solutions, such as targeting the better-off segments of the older population; and the potential consequences of a failure to implement reform.

Read more in the Nuffield Trust policy response: Reforming social care: options for funding (May 2012), by Anita Charlesworth and Ruth Thorlby.