Young and Old Need Care but Few Want to Think about Their Later Years; Health Wales Is Highlighting the Work of Welsh Crucible Researchers - the Cream of Welsh Research Talent. Explains His Role in the Debat Dr Martin O'Neille about How to Provide the Best Quality Social Care within Existing Resources

Byline: Dr Martin O'Neille

SOCIAL science seeks to understand how society works so we can come up with policies and solutions to the problems we face.

How the elderly and infirm are cared for is a very good indication of what any society believes is important.

In the UK today care of the elderly is a major concern to everyone.

Even for the young and fit, who may consider elderly care is something they would prefer not to think about, the increasing ageing population means we'll be forced to consider, in a lot more detail, how we fund and organise it.

Care is important throughout all our lifetimes - from the care given by parents during …

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Publication information: Article title: Young and Old Need Care but Few Want to Think about Their Later Years; Health Wales Is Highlighting the Work of Welsh Crucible Researchers - the Cream of Welsh Research Talent. Explains His Role in the Debat Dr Martin O'Neille about How to Provide the Best Quality Social Care within Existing Resources. Contributors: Not available. Newspaper title: Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales). Publication date: October 10, 2011. Page number: 25. © 2009 MGN Ltd. COPYRIGHT 2011 Gale Group.

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