Dementia sufferers are ending up dumped in Accident & Emergency departments following the closures of day centres for patients. A Telegraph investigation has discovered that 32 of the services - which are designed to alleviate pressure on carers - have closed in three years, including 20 in the last year alone. This has coincided with a sharp rise in the number of dementia patients being admitted to hospital via A&E, with an extra 100,000 such cases annually. Sir Simon Stevens, head of the NHS, warned that pressures in social care were now “putting real strain on families, carers and hospitals”. Charities said the withdrawal of the services, usually funded by councils, was “devastating” for vulnerable pensioners, and pushing families to breaking point....