Agreement: I Agree Body: Dear Editor The editorial by Mary Daly (BMJ 2026;394:e100629) and article by David Oliver (BMJ 2026;394:e100737) describe clearly what is needed to fund and organise social care. What is also needed is a strategy to reduce the need for social care by increasing healthy longevity, and the new NHS Live Longer Better programme (livelongerbetter.uk) has been introduced to do that. There is now strong evidence that the ageing process is not the major cause of the need for soc