Dementia: Coronavirus

(asked on 9th November 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will include people with dementia on the clinically vulnerable list.


Answered by
Jo Churchill Portrait
Jo Churchill
Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions)
This question was answered on 23rd November 2020

Keeping people safe throughout this period, especially society’s most vulnerable, is the Government’s top priority.

Dementia has not been added to the list of health conditions defined as clinically vulnerable, due to the varied presentation and severity of the condition. However, people with dementia may fall within the category of ‘vulnerable’ by, for example, meeting the criteria on age or the other defined health conditions.

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