A decade ago, my father suffered alone and in misery. Why do dementia sufferers still face the same fate? | Nicci Gerrard

"He had been in gradual decline for more than a decade but went into hospital in February... barely been allowed to see him because of an outbreak of norovirus on his ward. No one to tend to him... I still wrenches my heart to think of it."

"I was intending to start a campaign that would insist, very simply, that the carers of those with dementia have the same rights as parents of sick children... Instead, there are hundreds and thousands of smaller doors."

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