Dementia

(asked on 10th June 2019) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what comparative estimate his Department has made of the average cost of (a) caring for a dementia patient at home with care provided by family and (b) care provided in an in-patient setting.


Answered by
Caroline Dinenage Portrait
Caroline Dinenage
This question was answered on 13th June 2019

The Department has made no such comparative estimate.

The average cost of caring for a dementia patient at home by family is not collected or reported centrally.

Data on the average cost of care provided in an in-patient setting is not available in the format requested.

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