andriani does get nhs help now, but the family will still contribute nearly £40,000 a year.r son says it does nothing about these huge costs. i‘d like to say that the system is broken at the moment. because if the system was broken, then potentially it could be fixed. but, having seen it from the inside, i don‘t think we have a system at all. if you get one type of disease, you are covered by the nhs. if you get another type of disease, it‘s a social care issue. at the moment, in england, people only get council—funded help with social care if they have assets and savings of less than about £23,000. the conservatives want to increase that threshold to 100,000. but for the first time, people needing home care will, like those in residential care, have the value of their house included in these calculations. so, if you have a home and other assets worth 100,000, you get council help. but say the value is 300,000? then, you‘ll have to spend two thirds of that on care before getting local authority support. you wouldn‘t have to sell up though, as deferred payments mean costs are