This week's Dilnot commission report raised the question of whether the state should pay for elderly care or whether we should leave our pensioners and their families to go it alone. The report also highlighted the need to address the way we currently treat and care for our older citizens in the UK.
Hugh Muir visits 86-year-old Jean Smith at her home to get her views. He also meets those at the Great Croft day centre - a lifeline for the elderly people who go there, but where council funding has run out. He hears from John Hall about the financial hardships of paying for parents with dementia.
The studio debate on this issue features Amelia Gentleman, social affairs writer for the Guardian; Dot Gibson, general secretary of the national pensioners convention; and from Martin Karlsson, from Darmstat University in Germany.
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