Synopsis
Should the state pay for social care for the elderly or should people sell their homes and be responsible for funding their own care? Or should it be a partnership between the individual and the state? Does worry about money and who will care for us in our old age spoil retirement?
- Programme: Panorama
- Episode: Generation Game
- Channel: BBC One
- Broadcast year: 2010
- Sociology | How are family life and relationships changing? | Nuclear families, extended families, lone parent families, reconstituted families, same-sex families, non-family households, lone-person households, Family life and diversity: emerging family types, trends in marriage, divorce and cohabitation, Demographic changes: birth rate, family size, age at marriage, age of childbearing, ageing population.
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Staff and students of licensed education establishments only
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