More dementia patients in A&E over lack of care home beds A lack of care home beds means more than three in four dying dementia patients end up in A&E, shocking new figures show.
The number of later-stage patients making emergency visits to hospital jumped by 62 per cent in just five years between 2008/09 and 2012/13, research by King’s College London found.
Doctors warned many of the visits were preventable, unnecessary and distressing for patients and their families – as well as putting greater strain on overstretched emergency departments.
They blamed falling numbers of care home beds for the problem as the study found people in care homes were much less likely to go to A&E. The Daily Mail
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The number of later-stage patients making emergency visits to hospital jumped by 62 per cent in just five years between 2008/09 and 2012/13, research by King’s College London found.
Doctors warned many of the visits were preventable, unnecessary and distressing for patients and their families – as well as putting greater strain on overstretched emergency departments.
They blamed falling numbers of care home beds for the problem as the study found people in care homes were much less likely to go to A&E. The Daily Mail
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