'10p per day' spent on dementia patients

Three quarters of health trusts have refused to increase their funding for dementia care, despite government calls to make it a priority.

One in every ten of the trusts investigated has even reduced their level of spending, in a situation condemned by a leading campaign group as an "embarrassment”.

One primary care trust, Nottinghamshire County, has admitted spending just £38 a year for each patient with the illness.

The figures, revealed under the Freedom of Information Act, have been described as a "recipe for disaster” by charity the Alzheimer’s Society.

Full Article on Telegraph