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LATEST NEWS & EVENTS Care home bed shortage risk for elderly  An elderly client looking at wills and inheritance planning may need to consider how they are to provide for their own care as it emerges that there could be a shortfall of care home beds. Private health care provider Bupa is warning that councils' adult social care budgets will need to be ring-fenced in order to avoid a shortage of 100,000 care home beds. It says in a new report that real-term spending cuts will reduce care home beds by 81,000 over the coming decade, at the same time as an ageing population means the UK will require space for an additional 18,000 elderly people in need of care. Mark Ellerby from Bupa said: "We are clear - councils have to prioritise care for older people, otherwise we could see thousands of older people left isolated and without the specialist care they need." The news comes as elderly and vulnerable adults in Swindon are given "personal budgets" of council money that they are free to spend as they wish – either on personal care or on improving their property. Posted by Gaby Hamerton 
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