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...ba href=/dementia/a/b and lives at home.

Her weekly income is £250 and she has £15,000 savings.

Each week she gets 10 hours of personal care from her daughter and pays £48 for four hours from social services.

Under the scheme proposed by Sir Derek Wanless she would get 10 hours' care from social services and three sessions of day care to relieve her daughter.

The service would cost £200 a week, but she would pay only £34· Ms B lives alone and owns her house.

At present, when she has to move to a residential home she must pay £370 a week, the full cost.

But under Sir Derek's plan she would pay £204.

He wants care home residents to pay a "hotel charge" averaging £170 a week, but the state would pay most of the cost of personal care· Mr C lives at home and cannot feed himself or dress independently.

His income is £175 a week and he has savings worth £5,000.

With means-tested support he now pays £37 a week for 14 hours of personal care.

Under Sir Derek's scheme he would pay £33 for 19 hours.

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...ba href=/dementia/a/b, muscle spasms, problems with balance and eventually death.

Once patients begin showing symptoms, they die within one year.

It is unknown what causes sporadic CJD, which is believed to occur at a rate of about one person per million per year.

Another form of the disease, called variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, is more commonly known as mad cow disease, transmitted by eating meat containing the defective prions.

While neither form of the disease is known to be transmitted through casual contact, the concern is that prions are difficult to destroy and can stick to medical instruments.

Wayne Grant, the Atlanta attorney representing Price, said he thinks this is the first lawsuit stemming from the potential CJD exposures at Emory.

He said he represents two other former Emory surgical patients and will be filing lawsuits on their behalf within the next 30 days.

"When a hospital has a patient with known or suspected CJD and when tools may have been exposed to such a patient, there are two options that are medically proper," Grant said.

One is to take the tools out of service and quarantine them, he said.

"The second option is to sterilize with the most stringent protocol, which calls for the use of sodium hydroxide.

Emory did neither.

Why?

It comes down to money." Emory officials have said that in the wake of the preliminary CJD finding, the hospital resterilized all of its neurosurgical instruments with enhanced procedures.

But Grant and the lawsuit allege those enhance...

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(AP) — A new state Web site unveiled Wednesday is designed to help authorities track Alzheimer's and ba href=/dementia/a/b patients who get confused and wander away from home.

The secure government site, http://www.AlaSafe.gov, lets family members and caregivers enter personal information about patients who might be prone to leaving home and forgetting how to get back.

If someone is reported missing, police can use information from the Web site's database as they attempt to locate the person.

Officials said the Web site could help ease the worrying of family members and lower costs for searchers.

"It is estimated that the average search for a lost or wandering person with ba href=/dementia/a/b is nine hours, with a cost to law enforcement agencies of about $1,050 an hour," said Maury Mitchell, director of the Alabama Criminal Justice Information Center, which developed the site.

The concept for AlaSafe.gov was based on paper-based registration programs provided by some local police agencies.

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