by Mithran Samuel

Adult social care has re-emerged in recent years as a political issue of some salience. The story count on the sector in the national press has picked up notably (with indignity in care and the prospect that care fees will drain people of their savings and rob them of their homes being the topics of choice), while the BBC carried an entire month of programmes on the issue in January. Meanwhile, the Department of Health's focus on adult care has increased significantly through the personalisation agenda and its work towards this year's green paper, which promises to address the knotty question of funding. But how far do our media and political friends see adult social care as older people's social care and what is younger, disabled people's place in this new world?

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