Hospitals are 'very bad places' for millions of older people, NHS Chair says

Sir David Nickelson, chairman of the new NHS Commissioning Board, said the entire system needs changing to make sure elderly people with dementia are treated in their homes.

In an interview with The Independent, he compared the scale of the problem to the "national scandal" of people with mental health problems being kept in asylums during the 1960s and 1970s.

"The response was not just to say that the nurses who looked after these patients needed to be more caring but actually there was something about the way we treated these patients and the model of care that needed to change."

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