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""Home from home - Quality of care for people with dementia living in care homes

This report, by the Alzheimer's Society, published 27th November 2007 states that people with dementia are being subjected to huge inequalities in standards of residential care.

The charity is calling for mandatory dementia training for all care staff, with an end to the idea of the traditional 'old folks' home. The report comes at the start of a major campaign to improve the quality of life of almost a quarter of a million people living with dementia in residential care.

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