Hospitals are clogged with patients fit for discharge with nowhere to go; care workers are quitting for better pay; almost one in five people aged 70 and over are lonely. Amid reports of dismal care standards, the government’s plan to “fix social care” has been postponed. Growing old in England feels increasingly precarious.
But in the Lake District, a village of 1,500 people has decided to fight back. What the citizens of Staveley have planned may create a template to be repeated nationwide.
