Dementia care 'not good enough'
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Date published:
Tuesday, February 3, 2009News source:
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The government is planning to set up "memory clinics" across England to spot and treat the early signs of dementia. Economist and author George Magnus and Professor Andrew Kerslake, of the Institute of Public Care at Oxford Brookes University, discuss if this will "transform the lives" of 700,000 sufferers.
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