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• Means testing and lack of staff shape how England’s dementia patients are treated

  28-12-2022 17:49
  Low pay, limited training, temporary staff and cross-subsidising creating worse conditions, after government’s failure to ‘fix social care’Dementia patients in England facing ‘national crisis’ in care safetyThe distressing mistreatment of people with dementia in some care homes is nothing if not a structural problem. Care Quality Commission reports reveal workers can’t respond to bells being rung and desperate shouts from bedrooms because they are over-run. Ca
  
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• ‘Very grim’: daughter criticises Surrey care home over father’s death

  28-12-2022 17:32
  Home where Robert spent his last months was one of hundreds in England whose ratings fell after inspection this yearRobert Dunn* had been living with dementia at home for seven years when, after one fall too many, his son and daughter took the decision to move him. The 92-year-old former accountant moved into Limegrove, a £1,100-a-week care home in Surrey whose operator, Anchor, promised customers “care encompassing every aspect of wellbeing”.After he died five months later, a
  
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• Dementia patients in England facing ‘national crisis’ in care safety

  28-12-2022 17:29
  Exclusive: Nearly one in 10 care homes that offer dementia support reported on by inspectors in 2022 were given worst rating‘Very grim’: daughter criticises Surrey care home over father’s deathFamilies of people with dementia have said there is a national crisis in care safety as it emerged that more than half of residential homes reported on by inspectors this year were rated “inadequate” or requiring improvement – up from less than a third pre-pandemic.Serio
  
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