Dementia victims stranded in hospital this Christmas More than 1,400 dementia patients will be stranded in hospital on Christmas Day - despite being well enough to go home, a charity investigation has revealed.
The Alzheimer's Society has blamed a 'woefully inadequate' lack of social care funding, in the region of £2 billion, for 'turning wards into waiting rooms'.
Their damning investigation found dementia patients are becoming 'part of the furniture' and face delays up to 10 times as long as those without the disease.
Victims of dementia, which robs sufferers of their memory, rely on social care as drugs are unable to slow the progression of the incurable disease. The Daily Mail
The Alzheimer's Society has blamed a 'woefully inadequate' lack of social care funding, in the region of £2 billion, for 'turning wards into waiting rooms'.
Their damning investigation found dementia patients are becoming 'part of the furniture' and face delays up to 10 times as long as those without the disease.
Victims of dementia, which robs sufferers of their memory, rely on social care as drugs are unable to slow the progression of the incurable disease. The Daily Mail
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