The government will announce details of a deferred payment scheme for residential care for the elderly in which councils lend individuals money to pay for care, then recoup the money when their house is sold after their death.
The health secretary Andrew Lansley, who will launch the government's white paper on social care on Wednesday, said the scheme will "end the scandal of older people being forced to sell their homes...
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