Hospitals | Alzheimer's Society

Deciding about surgery when advanced dementia means a person can’t consent

How is a decision made about whether to have surgery if a person with dementia isn’t able to give informed consent themselves?

Nurses

Information about different types of nurses and how they can help support people with dementia and their carers.

Over half of people with dementia in hospital experience pain

From Care and Cure magazine, find out why pain in people with dementia is underreported in hospitals.

Carers' advice: Dealing with professionals

British Red Cross report highlights that older people at risk from emergency hospital readmissions

Alzheimer's Society responds to In and Out of Hospital, a report published by the British Red Cross.

Patients first

01 December 2017

Vulnerable adults being let down by poor social work practice, new report finds

Vulnerable people are being forced into situations against their will because care providers are not following the proper processes, the Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman has found.

Flicking a switch

A specialist hospital ward for people with dementia

01 February 2017