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''Social care is broken' say family threatened with court action in long battle to get dementia care for beloved dad

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His family take great comfort from the knowledge he was happy in a specialist dementia home where staff really cared. But the previous decade, they say, had been a battle for support from a care system they claim is 'broken'.

For George, a retired auto-electrician and dad of four, the signs of dementia started in 2010, shortly after the death of his wife Linda.

At first he stopped being able to tell the time. He tried to get out of the car with his seatbelt on. He struggled to follow simple instructions.

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