title: Commit to dignity.
abstract: INTEREST IN dementia has broken out beyond professional circles recently. An actor, a newsreader and a television presenter have described their personal experiences on prime time television, while author Terry Pratchett has presented two TV programmes on his response to diagnosis of the disease. This makes a welcome break from the diet of neglect and abuse regularly offered by parts of the media on the subject of older people's care. But all this, when set alongside the recent publication of the National Dementia Strategy for England ( Department of Health 2009 ) and parliamentary inquiry into training, is something of a sideshow.
authors.affiliation: The Relatives and Residents Association.
authors.forename: Les
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Bright