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Care service minister Liam Byrne insisted that older people's access to care had been "completely transformed".

But he conceded that neglect was still "too big a part of the story".

Plans would be unveiled next month to improve the situation, he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.

"We very much welcome the report because what it does do is confirm that access to care for many older people has been completely transformed over the last few years," he said.

"But what it also says is that dignity in care, although it is very widespread, is not universal.

That is what we now need to focus on throughout the remaining five years of this national service framework." He accepted a suggestion that it was "absolutely inexcusable" for older people to be malnourished while they were in care.

But on a recent tour of the country talking to older people he had heard "some extraordinary stories about care that has just transformed people's lives".

He added: "It is difficult to pretend that neglect is the whole story but it is too big a part of the story and that's why further reform is necessary to eliminate it once and for all.

"What this report, above all, does today is highlight the need for further reform in the National Health Service and social services and that's why, in January, we set out in our White Paper very ambitious plans to completely change the way these services operate in the future.

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His art was the focus of a 2001 study in the Lancet, an international medical journal, that analyzed the changes in Utermohlen's artistic ability.

Now, the portraits are on display at the College of Physicians of Philadelphia and will be the topic of a free presentation tomorrow, "Alzheimer's Disease: Neurology and the Visual Artist." Artists do not usually continue to produce art after the onset of Alzheimer's, said Anjan Chatterjee, associate professor of neurology at the University of Pennsylvania, who will speak at the college.

"The kind of organization and discipline that's required to produce art is affected.

So, you don't see this very often." Chatterjee finds it striking that, while an example of Utermohlen's handwriting from 1996 was "impoverished and broken down," he was drawing and painting extraordinarily well.

"That shows us that the [brain] systems involved in controlling our limbs to produce art are very different than the systems involved in writing." Early in his diagnosis, Utermohlen painted clear, sharp images.

In later stages, his features became more distorted and are eventually erased.

"As his brain's ability to process information is deteriorating, so is his ability to represent those kinds of things," Chatterjee said.

Yet he was still able to convey all of his emotions: anger, sadness, confusion and fear.

The work of artists with neurological disorders can help doctors understand better what is happening to patients who are not artists.

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