{"id":92389,"date":"2026-07-29T16:30:48","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T16:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=92389"},"modified":"2026-07-29T16:30:48","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T16:30:48","slug":"number-of-people-living-to-90-soars-how-will-they-pay-for-social-care-and-will-burnhams-plans-stem-the-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/07\/29\/number-of-people-living-to-90-soars-how-will-they-pay-for-social-care-and-will-burnhams-plans-stem-the-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Number of people living to 90 soars: How will they pay for social care &#8211; and will Burnham&#8217;s plans stem the crisis?"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> < 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.com\/1s\/2026\/07\/29\/15\/110318715-16013311-image-a-10_1785336005383.jpg\" alt=\"Overhaul: Prime Minister Andy Burnham met care home residents during a visit to announce plans to change the social care system\" \/><\/p>\n<p>More people are living into their 90s and will need support for longer, official figures have shown.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thisismoney.co.uk\/money\/pensions\/article-16013311\/Burnham-care-crisis-elderly-population.html?ico=mol_desktop_home-newtab&molReferrerUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailymail.com%2Fhome%2Findex.html&_gl=1*q4234j*_gcl_au*MTcyNTEwOTQ3MC4xNzc5NTUwMjI5*_ga*MTYwOTk5NzcyOC4xNzc5NTUwMjI3*_ga_C9F47K6NW6*czE3ODUzNDIzODUkbzExMSRnMSR0MTc4NTM0MjM4NyRqNjAkbDAkaDg4NDg2NTQyMQ..\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>More people are living into their 90s and will need support for longer, official figures have shown.\u00a0 Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":92263,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Andy-Burnham1.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92389"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92390,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92389\/revisions\/92390"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}