asked the Secretary of State for Scotland what funding is being given to research projects in Scotland investigating the causes of dementia in elderly persons.
Information relating to all medical research being conducted in Scotland is not available centrally. However, the Scottish Home and Health Department is currently supporting two projects relevant to investigating the causation of dementia in elderly persons. Total funding provided for these projects is some £38,000.
asked the Secretary of State for Scotland how many projects for the elderly with dementia are funded under the support finance scheme in Scotland.
50 projects for the provision of facilities for the elderly are currently being funded under this scheme. Many of these will be of benefit to the elderly with dementia, and two of them are specifically intended to assist such persons.
asked the Secretary of State for Scotland how many elderly people with dementia are in psychiatric hospitals in Scotland.
The number of patients suffering from dementia, aged 65 years and over and resident in Scottish psychiatric hospitals of all types at 31 December 1983 was as follows:
| Number | |
| Males | 986 |
| Females | 3,206 |
| Total | 4,192 |
asked the Secretary of State for Scotland (1) how many day centres are planned in each of the next five years for each health board in Scotland for the elderly with dementia;(2) how many places in day hospitals are planned in each of the next five years for each health board in Scotland for the elderly with dementia;(3) how many continuing care units for the elderly with dementia are planned to open in each of the next five years for each of the health boards in Scotland.
This information is not available centrally. Health boards are currently reviewing their plans for this type of accommodation.
asked the Secretary of State for Scotland (1) how many day centres are provided in each health board in Scotland for the elderly with dementia;(2) how many places are provided in day hospitals for each health board in Scotland for the elderly with dementia.
The statistics held centrally do not distinguish between the two types of provision. At 31 March 1984 the estimated number of hospitals/centres and the number of places available in the areas of the Health Boards making such provision was as follows:
| Number of hospitals/centres | Number of places* | |
| Ayrshire and Arran | 1 | 25 |
| Argyll and Clyde | 3 | 73 |
| Fife | 3 | 103 |
| Greater Glasgow | 2 | 48 |
| Grampian | 4 | 53 |
| Lothian | 7 | 156 |
| Tayside | 7 | 107 |
| Dumfries and Galloway | 1 | 30 |
| Total | 28 | 595 |
| * Estimated. | ||
Source: ISD(S)1.
asked the Secretary of State for Scotland what evidence is available to him on the performance of health boards in Scotland in providing services for the elderly with dementia, in terms of the recommendations of the Scottish Home and Health Department's report "Scottish Health Authorities Priorities for the Eighties", HMSO 1980.
The evidence available centrally is contained partly in information provided in response to requests by the Scottish Home and Health Department and partly in published and other statistical information collected by the information services division of the Common Services Agency.
asked the Secretary of State for Scotland how many continuing care units for the elderly with dementia have been opened by each health board in Scotland since the publication of the Scottish Home and Health Department's report "Scottish Health Authorities Priorities for the Eighties", HMSO 1980.
Two such units have been opened, both in the Grampian health board area.
asked the Secretary of State for Scotland how many elderly people with dementia are placed in acute medical wards in Scotland.
This information is not kept centrally.