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The boundary between state and personal responsibility for dementia care must be redefined

When recent research showed lower overall and slower increases in the numbers of people with dementia than expected, there was stunned silence. Then spin doctors tried to work out whether this was good news, bad news or could be dismissed as bad research.
Posted 21 October 2015
 
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