Michelle Mitchell, director of Age UK has said that the budget cuts announced by the authorities could cause a crisis in the elderly care in the UK. She warned that the UK faces an "absolute crisis" in social care for elderly people due to cuts n service budgets.

Ms Mitchell said that the reductions in council social care budgets could result in an increasing number of elderly people with "absolutely no support at all, or poor quality and limited support".

She said that according to estimates, there will be one million older people needing significant care in the UK by 2015, from 900,000 in 2012. she also said that the budget cuts could ultimately cost more to the government as thousands of people would end up in hospitals without care now.

Ms Mitchell noted that there has been an increase in admissions to hospital over the last few months. "Care is in crisis and it is getting worse. We have evidence to show that local authorities have cut care for older people by 4.5% this year, and this at a time when social care is chronically underfunded anyway," she added.

Age UK estimates show that 1.8 million pensioners live beneath the poverty line and about one million live in severe poverty in the country.