Jimmy McGovern’s Care has shed light on a crisis. Now we need a solution | Dawn Foster

A ‘Grey New Deal’ for Britain could halt the crisis in elderly care – budget cuts are ruining livesEarly in Jimmy McGovern’s BBC drama Care, broadcast on Sunday, an occupational therapist takes Mary, a character recently diagnosed with vascular dementia after a stroke, to a test kitchen in the hospital and asks her to make herself a cup of tea by first placing a teabag in a cup. Her daughters, seated behind her, dismiss the exercise as a farce: Mary has lost the ability t