Dementia patients are being ‘cast aside’ by the NHS and treated like second-class citizens, the head of Alzheimer’s Society has warned.
Michelle Dyson accused ministers of ignoring Britain’s biggest killer and said patients were too often diagnosed, discharged and sent home with little more than a leaflet.
In a damning intervention, she said dementia was still not treated with the same urgency as cancer or heart disease, despite devastating families and placing huge pressure on hospitals and care homes.
The charity chief said the NHS was woefully unprepared to deliver emerging Alzheimer’s drugs, comparing the impending tragedy to watching a ‘car crash in
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