Milestone for Observer supported John’s Campaign as carers of those with dementia to win same access as parents of sick childrenA campaign to persuade hospitals to allow the loved ones of people with dementia to stay with them has signed up 100 hospitals to the idea.
The figure marks a milestone in John’s Campaign – named after the father of writer Nicci Gerrard,who launched her campaign in the Observer after his death last November. Watching John Gerrard disappear into hospital articulate, continent, or mobile and joyful – and leave four weeks later inarticulate,incontinent and motionless and skeletal, led his daughter to start working to make hospitals more compassionate places for people with dementia.
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Source: theguardian.com