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Do you know someone with dementia admitted to hospital as an emergency?

<span>Photograph: Edward Moss/Alamy Stock Photo</span>
Photograph: Edward Moss/Alamy Stock Photo

Do you know anyone with dementia who has been admitted to hospital as an emergency? If so, we’d like to hear from you. We’d also like to hear more about this issue from NHS staff.

Figures from NHS data showed that hospitals in England recorded more than 379,000 admissions of people with the condition during 2017/18. That was 100,000 more than the number of such patients admitted in 2012/13.

It’s thought that many people with dementia were taken to hospital because of a lack of available social care.

Share your experiences

If a relative, friend or someone you care for with dementia was admitted to hospital, we want to hear what happened. Why did they end up in hospital, and what was their care like beforehand and after they were admitted?

If you work in social care or the NHS and have experience of people with the condition in hospital, we’d also like to hear your views.

You can get in touch with us by filling in the encrypted form below. Only the Guardian will see your responses and one of our journalists may be in touch for more information.

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