Counting the cost

Alzheimer's Society's new Counting the Cost report reveals unacceptable variations in the quality of care for people with dementia in hospital.

It reveals people with dementia often spend longer in hospital than other people without the condition receiving the same treatment, and nursing staff are ill-equipped to provide the specialist dementia care that they need.

As part of our Putting Care Right campaign, this report aims to improve the quality of care for people with dementia in Britain's hospitals. It calls for nurses to be empowered with specialist training and for the average amount of time people with dementia stay in hospital to be reduced by a week. This could save the NHS over £80 million per year.  

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