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From experience to date, the funds transferred will not be available to all 'vulnerable older people' but to only those eligible for funded social care. Maybe there will be reablement services providing short-term provision that are not subject to eligibility criteria and financial assessment but this looks to me as an older person currently self-funding that it is more likely that this is a subtle way of moving money out of the 'health pot' into a system dependent on eligibility criteria requiring an assessment of significant or critical need and in addition, subject to a financial assessment i.e. a rationing of services to the elderly. One can only watch and wait.