Dementia patients are being catapulted into hospitals because of inadequate community care. That’s the finding of Alzheimer's Society research, which ...
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Dementia patients are being dumped in hospitals due to lack of options
Rising admissions to A&E for people with dementia due to ‘threadbare’ social care system
Tens of thousands of people with dementia each year are being admitted to A&E because inadequate social care is leaving them unprotected from falls and...
Under-funded social care sees 1400 people with dementia stranded in hospital at Xmas
A lack of available care homes and home care due to under-funding will see at least 1,400 people with dementia spending Christmas Day in hospital, despite ...
Dementia and stroke research underfunded in UK
The amount of government money pumped into dementia and stroke research in the UK has risen significantly in recent years, but it is still way too low when...
55 quid bung for dementia diagnosis is ludicrous
Just when you think that nothing that this excuse for a government can do could possibly shock you, along comes the 55 quid bung for diagnosing dementia. T...
Withdraw ‘cash for diagnoses’ dementia scheme
Leading doctors and health campaigners are urging the government to withdraw its Dementia Identification Scheme, whereby English GPs are to be paid £55 ...
GPs to be paid £55 for each dementia diagnosis
Family doctors in England are to be paid £55 for each patient they diagnose with dementia, NHS bosses say. NHS England said the aim of the six-month £...
Elderly medicine: how can people with dementia achieve real choice?
Jayne Chidgey-Clark, director of training and development, National Council for Palliative Care speaks at www.healthpluscare.co.uk conference on how people...
Second dementia audit findings: identify delirium
It is good to see that some progress has been made in improving hospital based dementia care since the last audit. It is vital that all older people admitt...