The adult social care system helps older or disabled people with day-to-day tasks like washing, dressing and eating, and covers support in people's own homes, as well as care homes.
Unlike the NHS, social care is means-tested and people are usually expected to contribute towards the cost.
This means some people face paying hundreds of thousands of pounds for their care and may be forced to sell their own home as a result.
Deborah Crisp told the programme how three years ago her 98-year-old mother, who has dementia, had to sell her flat for just under £200,000 to pay for a care home - and that amount had already been used up.
"Now that money has gone," she said.
"The local authority say they cannot fund her to stay where she is and she will need to be moved somewhere else, and we feel that due to her multiple health issues it will be catastrophic for her to be moved elsewhere - and we really fear for her safety."