Should there be a 'later life commission'?

Michael Klimes asks if a permanent, independent body staffed by technocrats can find answers to funding retirement and social care
Prime minister Theresa May's proposal that elderly people should pay for care in their own home unless they have under £100,000 in assets was supposed to an attempt to deal with the social care crisis...
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