Approach to dementia care 'needs to be addressed'
Domiciliary care insurance
17th March 2009
UK care homes need to improve the way they look after people with dementia, it has been claimed.
According to Laing & Buisson, a firm of health and social care analysts, one-third of care homes in the UK do not provide staff with proper specialist training.
Evidence from the company's report will be presented by the All Party Parliamentary Group on Dementia to a parliamentary inquiry today (March 17th).
The chief executive of the Alzheimer's Society, Neil Hunt, said the findings of the report were a "sad indictment" of the state of the state of dementia care in the country.
He commented: "In less than 15 years there will be a million people living with dementia; we need to gear the whole of the care home sector to delivering good dementia care."
Currently, around 700,000 people in the UK have dementia, including 15,000 younger people, figures from the Alzheimer's Society indicate.
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