The Health and Social Care Portfolio

Part of 1. Questions to the Minister for Finance and Trefnydd – in the Senedd at 1:32 pm on 16 October 2019.

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Photo of Mohammad Asghar Mohammad Asghar Conservative 1:32, 16 October 2019

Minister, of the 45,000 people suffering from dementia, 17,000 people live in a rural area. People with dementia living in rural areas face additional challenges, such as poor transport links making it harder to access help, carers feeling more isolated and unsupported, and, finally, support services being less likely to be available. That's a sad scenario for those people. Minister, what consideration has been given to the needs of people suffering from dementia who live in rural areas in Wales when allocating the budget to the health and social care portfolio?