Rethinking care: With the population set to age further in the decades to come, the ever-expanding marketisation of care must be replaced by a system based on solidarity

Over the next 25 years, the population above the age of 85 will almost double. And yet, the trajectory we are on in terms of the financing and organisation of health and social care in older age is one that promises to merely deepen divides, both within generations and also across them. This is privatisation in two senses: in the foregrounding of care as a personal responsibility and in the marketisation of care.