Dementia care is leaving families destitute, warns charity It would take more than a century for a patient to save enough to pay the typical cost of dementia care, a report warns.
They would need to save £800 a year for 125 years to reach the £100,000 experts say it now costs to live comfortably with dementia for five years.
The Alzheimer’s Society, which carried out the study, warns the cost of social care is leaving families destitute and is calling on the next government to create a ‘long-term, sustainable system’ to fund it. The Daily Mail
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They would need to save £800 a year for 125 years to reach the £100,000 experts say it now costs to live comfortably with dementia for five years.
The Alzheimer’s Society, which carried out the study, warns the cost of social care is leaving families destitute and is calling on the next government to create a ‘long-term, sustainable system’ to fund it. The Daily Mail
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- Impossible cost: Dementia care bill would take 125 years to save for The Alzheimer’s Society
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