The prime Alzheimer's charity in Scotland has criticized the treatment of dementia patient who was subject to more than one hundred carers in time leading up to his death.

Jeanette Maitland said that her husband, Ken Maitland, 72 was seen by a total of 106 carers as part of his treatment when she continued to care for him at their home at Kingswells near Aberdeen. Mrs Maitland explained that a series of unfamiliar carers began to appear at their home in April 2011fter her husband's care was taken over by a new agency that was contracted by Aberdeen City Council.

Valerie Watts, chief executive of the city council has said that he would launch an investigation into the quality of care given to Mr Maitland. Meanwhile, Kirsty Jardine, awareness manager at Alzheimer Scotland, claimed the "unjustifiably frequent changes of support and care staff" were not acceptable.

Ms Jardine said, "The sheer scale of the number of people involved in this case may be unusual but people being faced with repeated new carers coming into the house with no warning and no explanation is not so unusual in Scotland."

She added that dementia patients must have a routine in treatment and there should be familiarity and time to build up relationships with the carers. The treatment in which the carers change frequently must have been distressing and stressful.