The Role of the Family in Elder Care

The family is this powerful intergenerational mechanism for concentrating wealth. It's a place where you get cuddles and somebody blows raspberries on your tummy, like it is fundamentally about inheritance in its sort of bourgeois form. But we have to acknowledge that far from being sort of strongholds of care and support very often these sort of informal arrangements are really contingent. They're both resilient, but they can be very vulnerable for people who step outside of their confines.