MORE than 1,400 people with dementia will be stranded in hospital on Christmas Day due to the crisis in social care, a charity warns today.

Dementia patients wait up to 10 times longer to be discharged than those without the condition, an investigation by the Alzheimer’s Society has found.

A £2b billion shortfall in social care funding is “turning wards into waiting rooms,” said the report, which is based on analysis of hospital audits.