Independent Care Group comments on shocking Alzheimer’s Society investigation

The plight of 1,400 people with dementia who are stranded in hospital this Christmas because of a lack of available social care to look after them was today condemned as a disgrace.The Independent Care Group said the investigation by Alzheimer’s Society had uncovered a situation which shamed the country and was totally unacceptable in 2017.The Society today reports that at least 1,400 people look set to spend Christmas in hospital because the social care system is so starved of funding it