The Conservatives’ solution for unaffordable care? No care | Barbara Keeley

Seventy thousand older people with complex needs left to fend for themselves: Tory apathy on social care funding could turn a crisis into a catastrophe• Barbara Keeley, Labour MP for Worsley and Eccles South, is shadow minister for social care and mental healthDespite evidence that life expectancy may be stagnating, the century-long rise should be a cause for celebration. However, for too many people – unsure whether they will be able to afford the care they may need or to plan for th