We don't need to wait to fix adults social care

Dementia is the UK ’s biggest killer, and prevalence is growing.

Almost one million people in the UK live with dementia, and the majority of people drawing on older-age social care have dementia.

Almost 60 per cent of people who draw on care at home and 70 per cent in old-age residential care in England have dementia. It is estimated that its cost to social care in 2024 alone was 17.2bn .

Alzheimer’s Society wants to see the UK government introduce a statutory duty for providers to ensure all adult social care staff undertake dementia training.

We need to think about the bigger questions around social care reform and make real progress on answering them.

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