Baroness Louise Casey

A million of us have dementia and many, many more of us will get it as we get older.

It's a wonderful thing that we are living for longer.

But with that comes Alzheimer's and dementia.

And yet we don't really do many clinical trials into dementia.

We don't.

really see it as a disease even though it's called alzheimer's disease there was a man i met in newcastle when his wife they were in their early 60s his wife was diagnosed with dementia he was given a blue folder one was how his council tax could be reduced and the piece of paper he had to fill out and the other was how he could

apply for personal independence payments.

He needed neither.

They were fine for money.

What he wanted to know was what was going to happen, how it would happen and what help he could have.

Really simple, straightforward request.

We couldn't manage it.

So I think

You know, I'm trying to press on with some things in the meantime.

But is the answer to that... Sorry, I'm blathering now.

So I think that one of the obvious fault lines is government has to create silos in order to run systems.

And so for something like social care,

in inverted commas, it's the Department of Health and Social Care that run the policy on it, but really the Department of Health is the Department of Hospitals.

I've said publicly that the NHS is really the National Hospital Service.

Everything gets... All of the money, all of the attention gets swooped up into hospitals, and so, like, GPs don't get much of a look-in, but neither does social care, so there's an inequality there.