ABSTRACT
The problem of making financial provision for old age is in the main solved or in process of solution. But old age remains one of the main problems for this Report as for the author's former Report. It affords the perhaps largest illustration of needs which cannot be satisfied by providing a subsistence income. The needs of old people are not of course met by housing them. There are many for whom the possibility of a happy independent life depends on their getting help in one way or another with domestic tasks. There remain two general needs of old people—for occupation and for companionship. Most children happily find all their needs, other than for education and similar technical help, met for them within their homes or through their parents. There are some for whom this normal provision through the family fails. These children are to be found in two places, some outside their parents’ homes, some in their homes.
