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Services for those diagnosed with dementia have been put on hold since March.
A national charity has called on the Scottish Government for more support for dementia patients.
Alzheimer Scotland, which supports those living with dementia and Alzheimer’s, said many services have been disrupted this year as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.
It has moved many services online, and has also been calling those it usually supports face-to-face to ensure that people are retaining their normal weekly interactions, which they would have gotten in the charity’s resource centres.
Services for those diagnosed with dementia have been put on hold since March, and some only began to resume again at the end of September.
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