For many years, debate has continued over the boundaries of social care and health care systems.

This division is significant because, under the public National Health
Service, the United Kingdom provides free health care services. On the
other hand, social care exists as a separate, primarily private system
that does not provide “free” services in the way that the National
Health Service does.

There is a simple reason for this division; providing free care to all
elderly people for all of the problems of old age would be too
expensive.

However, it is difficult to define when social care becomes health
care-is helping the elderly people feed themselves a social need or a
medical one?

Over the last few years, more and more people have started to think that
bringing these two systems together and forcing them under one
management system would be the solution to a lot of problems. After all,
taking care of vulnerable people between different organizations is
extremely complex and takes excellent communication.

Yet, in reality, it is likely that this would result in poor social care
in relation to health care since, as the case in similar schemes
elsewhere, social care often becomes the junior partner.

It is likely that a separate and independent social care system working
in cooperation with the health care system may be the best approach.