Part 2, 'Expanding into Life' in 'Care in Time: Celebrating Longer Lives in England and Wales'

The purpose of this essay has been to track the major social and ecclesial changes of the last twenty years that have affected the lived experience of older people; to probe beneath them to expose the deep assumptions distorting our views of old age; to challenge and correct these in the light of contemporary Catholic Social Teaching; and to apply this renewed perspective to some of the concerns driving the current policy debate on providing for elderly social care.