This issue, as might well be expected, is exercising minds around the country, and has been so doing for some time, with some insightful thinking, sterling efforts and successes, and some good humour.
A sample, in reverse order...
The humour...
"Any experienced elderly care nurse will tell you: where there's a will, there's a relative.
Brian Booth
Rochester, Kent"
The efforts and success...
http://www.bristolgrandparentssupportgroup.co.uk/
The insightful thinking...
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/oct/21/reinvigorating-ways-support-older-people
Any here that are saddened by 'copy-&-paste' are free to add their own twopence worth.

Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.