Your voice, your choice: “A social crisis among adults is imminent”

Saffron Roberts-Carey is 29 and worried about her future. She sees her mother and grandmother depleting their savings on vital care and fears the welfare system could collapse when she might need it.

They spend more than £8,000 a month on care fees without any financial support and, according to Ms Roberts-Carey, the family feel they are being left alone to solve the problem.

She is one of many people telling the BBC via Your Voice, Your Vote that the state of the care system is one of their most pressing issues this election.

“I have a good job, a master’s degree and I think I earn quite well, but it doesn’t look like that will be enough for the future,” Ms Roberts-Carey said.

“I’m 29 and my generation can’t even afford to buy a house. What will happen when we get older and don’t have houses and thousands of pounds in savings and potentially need care?”

She cares for her 64-year-old mother, who suffers from multiple system atrophy, a rare, incurable brain disease that essentially traps sufferers in a body that is slowly failing.

Her mother requires caregivers twice a day and her daughter is an unpaid caregiver, who says she has to do this in addition to her full-time job.

Her 91-year-old grandmother, who suffers from dementia, now needs to be cared for in a nursing home, she adds.

Ms Roberts-Carey, who lives in the West Midlands, said they had spent more than £8,000 in total on care and had been told they would have to spend £100,000 each from their savings before they could apply for financial help for care.

“At the moment my mother is £2,000 short every month after her pension and benefits go directly towards care, so her savings will make up the difference until those run out,” she said.

“Adult social care is facing a crisis.”