Dementia patients are being let down at every stage of their care in a failing system that would never be tolerated for cancer or heart disease, a landmark report warns today.
New findings by the Alzheimer’s Society – released in partnership with the Daily Mail’s Defeating Dementia campaign – lay bare a crisis of staggering scale. From first symptoms to diagnosis, patients wait an average of 3.5 years.
One in five patients say they received no support after diagnosis, with families describing being ‘released into the wild’. Meanwhile only half of those prescribed dementia medication remain on it for a year, despite
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