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Health and Social Care Committee Report on Supporting People with Dementia and their Carers - Alzheimer's Society responds
Friday 29 October 2021
The influential Health and Social Care committee has released a report on ‘supporting people with dementia and their carers’. The report builds on their previous recommendations on social care and reiterates that significant additional investment is vital for reform.
Fiona Carragher, Director of Research and Influencing said:
‘Today’s report underlines just how intolerable the broken social care system is making the lives of people with dementia across this country.
‘We fully back the Committee’s call for far more investment, and a long-term plan for the social care sector, as well as training, pay and progression to create a strong care workforce – that can finally deliver the quality care people with dementia have been crying out for and denied for too long.
“Yesterday’s budget contained barely enough funding to keep the system afloat until the 2023 funding kicks in. But there’s still an opportunity to turn the ship around - the upcoming white papers must focus on driving up the quality of social care for everyone with dementia.’
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