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  • Family told by NHS: Alzheimer's is not a 'health condition'

    08/21/2009 6:02:32 AM PDT · by WhiteCastle · 34 replies · 828+ views
    Telegraph.co.uk ^ | August 18,, 2009 | Nick Britten
    NHS Worcestershire ruled that Judith Roe, 74, did not qualify for NHS funding because her condition was a "social" rather than "health" problem, even though she was so ill she could not make a cup of tea and regularly left the stove on. She was forced to sell her £200,000 home to pay her £600-a-week nursing home fees, which would have been funded if she had been categorised correctly. Her son, Richard, 40, urged other families in a similar situation to fight for the care they are entitled to. He said: "The way the health trust behaved was scandalous. It...