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‘There is no coherent plan for dealing with our dementia crisis’

Care is unfairly costing many city families thousands of pounds a week

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Best-selling author and dementia campaigner Sir Terry Pratchett: Pic terrypratchett.com

It’s a terminal illness, and it’s the biggest killer of women in Scotland. It is something that some estimates predict one in three of us born today will go on to develop, yet it is rarely spoken about. It is dementia, the numbers dying of it have doubled in the past …

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