Video: Age UK: 'old age should not be dirty words' While agreeing that longer life is a "gift" to be welcomed, the committee said that unless the Government acts swiftly, it can be expected to cause "a series of crises" in society and public services. One commission should work with employers and financial services providers to improve pensions, savings and equity release schemes, while the other should look at organisational and funding changes needed in the health and social care system. Health and social care services will need a "radically different model" to look after people in their own homes and in the community and avoid needless hospital admissions, said the report. The committee said that the current NHS and care system is already "failing" older people and is "inappropriate" to deal with the expected large increase in elderly people, a sizeable proportion of whom will have long-term health conditions.