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Our Hope - We all hope that our retirement will be a long and happy one and that we retain our health, independence and dignity in our own home until the very end.

Reality - The reality is that

  • In England alone there are 256,900 people in permanent or temporary supported care with these figures only including those people that are funded or partly funded by local authorities and not those who arrange their own care, actual numbers of people needing care is much larger. 

    (Source: Community Care Statistics 2006 - www.ic.nhs.uk
  • Due to medical advances we are living longer. As we live longer it is more likely that due to frailty we will find it more difficult to do the basics in life.

This is supported by Government statistics which show that although Female life expectancy has risen from 76.8 in 1981 to 80.4 in 2001. A rise of 5%, the corresponding number of years lived in poor health rose to 11.6 years in from 10.1 in 1981 - a rise of 15 %

Male life expectancy rose during the same time from 70.9 in 1981 to 75.7 in 2001- a rise of 6.7%. The average number of years they might live in poor health rose to 8.7 years in 2001 compared with 6.5 in 1981 -a rise of 34 % !
source: Department of National Statistics 22nd July 2004

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