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Funding social care
While the story doesn't detail funding, the creation of Comfort Companions by Grant Mackenzie and his father points to the challenges in traditional social care. The need for innovative, often privately developed, solutions suggests that existing public and charitable funding models struggle to meet the scale of the loneliness problem. This highlights a broader discussion about how social care is financed.
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