Dementia: scoping the role of the dementia nurse specialist in acute care: This report highlights the significant contribution dementia nurse specialists could make in hospital settings, based on research which found that if properly funded and trained they could reduce hospital stays for older people by one day on average, saving almost £11,000,000 a year. It recommends that there should be at least one whole-time dementia specialist nurse for every 300 hospital admissions for people with dementia.
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