article_snippet: The 31-page Labour document suggested police cuts would fuel crime, a third of elderly people who receive state-funded social care would have a third of elderly people who receive state-funded social care stopped and the NHS
article_snippet: as we know a third of elderly people who receive state-funded social care’ would cease to exist.
article_snippet: These would lead to the smallest police force since comparable records began, the smallest Army since Cromwell, and over a third of older people receiving social care losing social care entitlement to social care.
article_snippet: ’ ELDERLY DENIED SOCIAL CARE .
article_snippet: It forecasts that the number of older people receiving state-funded social care would fall by 260,000 – a third of the current total.
article_snippet: Labour's doom-laden dossier says services would be withdrawn from people ‘who might struggle with daily living activities such as getting washed or dressed, or making a meal’.
article_snippet: At the cost of £1.6billion a year to the taxpayer, The Conservative-led Coalition is introducing a cap of £72,000 on the amount people have to contribute towards people own care, and introduced the first national guidelines on who should qualify for free care. 