Music and dance therapy should be prescribed for dementia patients to stop them being 'over-medicalised', says Health Secretary Matt Hancock Matt Hancock said he wanted to avoid 'handing out pills' for dementia sufferers He said alternative therapies such as music and dance could help some patients Around 850,000 people in Britain suffer from dementia and this figure will rise Within a decade there will be more than a million Britons with dementia
By Daily Mail Reporter
Published: 01:33 BST, 4 April 2019 | Updated: 01:33 BST, 4 April 2019
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More people with dementia should be given music or dance therapy in a bid to prevent them being 'over-medicalised', the Health Secretary has said.
Matt Hancock said that while guidance says local areas should consider music or dancing for people with dementia, such therapies have not been widely adopted across England.
Speaking following a
