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Dr Ronald Baxter, who has funded a scholarship run by UWS to improve dementia support for families. A SCOTS doctor’s efforts to improve end-of-life dementia care will be recognised by a new university scholarship, that is being launched today in her honour. Dr Wendy Baxter nursed her father through dementia before she was diagnosed with the disease that had also claimed her mother’s life. She was awarded an MBE for her pioneering work in palliative care for cancer patients, serving as medical director of the Accord Hospice in Paisley. Her first-hand, experience of dementia, strengthened her resolve that the same standards should be applied in the disease that had claimed both her parent s lives.