Tory Government betrays our elderly with 1bn social care cuts

Savage cuts of 1.1billion have left hundreds of thousands of vulnerable pensioners without help washing, dressing and eating, a damning report reveals today.

Vital services such as meals on wheels and home visits have been hit particularly badly since the ConDems came to power in 2010, Age UK found.

The charitys Caroline Abrahams described the studys findings as devastating and said: Hundreds of thousands of older people who need social care are being left high and dry.

Age UK found the number of over-65s receiving care fell nearly 30% from 1,230,625 under Labour to 849,280 now.

The amount of day care places plunged 67% from 178,700 to 59,125 and numbers getting meals on wheels fell 63.7% from 81,460 to 29,569.

Half of the one million elderly people who struggled to wash or bathe and a third of the 350,000 who had difficulty getting to the toilet got no help.

30%

Fall in number of people over 65 receiving social care since 2005/6

Of the 570,000 people who struggled to get out of bed on their own, a third do not receive any support.

Two-thirds of the 250,000 people who had trouble feeding themselves were also left in the lurch.

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Tory Government betrays our elderly with 1bn social care cuts