Emergency admissions for dementia patients rise 12%

Experts say the increasing number of admissions is costly to the NHS and in many cases unnecessary, as well as traumatic for vulnerable patients.

Campaigners are calling for new strategies to improve care for dementia under the reformed health service, with greater involvement from patients themselves.

Better services will become critical in the coming years as the ageing population means many more people in England will develop degenerative brain conditions such as Alzheimer’s.

Currently some 750,000 people are estimated to have dementia, although many go undiagnosed, and the figure is expected to rise to 1million within a decade, pushing the financial cost to £27billion and posing “one of the most significant challenges” to health and social care.

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