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Wed 11 Nov 2009Dementia patients worse off after UK hospitals, report finds
PEOPLE WITH dementia, who occupy one in four of all hospital beds in the United Kingdom, stay longer in hospital than other patients and leave in worse condition, according to a major report published yesterday.
Nearly all British nurses, 97 per cent, care frequently for patients with dementia, yet eight in every 10 have never received any specialist training and most find the work "quite challenging".
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