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.
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.