Parliament Debates (dementia )

jimbo 111

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dementia : 1 Commons debate
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Petition - Bredbury Parkway Industrial Estate Extension: Elder Abuse (23 Oct 2018)
https://www.theyworkforyou.com/debates/?id=2018-10-23a.249.0&s=dementia#g254.1
Victoria Atkins: ...abuse and exploitation, the justice system treats
them appropriately and they have ready access to the right support
services. My hon. Friend the Member for Clacton mentioned the ability of
older people, perhaps those suffering from *dementia*, to give evidence
in trials. I used to prosecute fraud, and some cases involved fraud
committed against the NHS or social care. One of our greatest...

dementia : 1 Westminster Hall debate
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HELMS and the Green Deal - [Mr Laurence Robertson in the Chair] (23 Oct 2018)
https://www.theyworkforyou.com/whall/?id=2018-10-23a.33.0&s=dementia#g34.0
Philippa Whitford: .... One-hundred and sixty-nine of my constituents
have been affected, and what was striking about the public meetings that
we held was the proportion of elderly people in their 70s and 80s—one
with *dementia*, another with almost total blindness—who were tricked
into this. It was not, on any level, the selling of solar panels; it was
fraud.

dementia : 1 Written Answer
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Written Answers - Department of Health and Social Care: Dementia: Research (23 Oct 2018)
https://www.theyworkforyou.com/wrans/?id=2018-10-15.179105.h&s=dementia#g179105.r0
Caroline Dinenage: The Government remains strongly committed to
supporting research into *dementia* and the United Kingdom research
community is playing a significant role in the global effort to find a
cure or a major disease-modifying treatment by 2025. In the Challenge
on *Dementia* 2020, the Government has committed to double spending on
research by 2020. This is equivalent to around £60 million per...

dementia : 1 Lords debate
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Life Sciences Industrial Strategy (Science and Technology Committee Report) - Motion to Take Note (23 Oct 2018)
https://www.theyworkforyou.com/lords/?id=2018-10-23a.802.0&s=dementia#g836.0
Lord Turnberg: ...work. They immediately came up against a series of
problems and at the end of a very few weeks only four people out of the
20 were wearing the device, and they soon stopped. A whole range of
issues was raised. Would people with *dementia* be happy to wear the
monitoring devices? Who would do the monitoring? Family members might be
at work or elsewhere. Nurses and social workers are already.
 

Whisperer

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So let me get this right.
1) Spend £60 million per year on research. About the amount of the total toilet rolls bought by the Civil Service. Well nice to know the priority the matter is being accorded. Anyone would think this illness was the common cold, not destroying many individual life’s, causing pain to Carers and families and god knows what amount of hidden costs to society.
2) Aim for a cure or major disease modifying treatment by 2025. That being the base line promise which no doubt will get watered down. So powers that be are you sitting comfortably, not pushing to hard on the progress wheel? Next time I hear a politician bemoan the culture of the lack of ambition in “failing schools” I will try hard not to laugh but do not bank on it.