This working paper is produced as part of the Social Care Funding Options project, a joint project between the Health Foundation and The King’s Fund.
This paper considers the following approaches to funding social care for older people in England: improving the current system; the Conservative Party’s proposals at the time of the 2017 general election (a revised means test and a cap on care costs); a single budget for health and social care; free personal care, and; a hypothecated tax for social care. These models were chosen to reflect the solutions most commonly raised in the debate around social care funding, and are not a comprehensive list of possible models. [Abstract]