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UK Leadership Needed To Tackle Global Cost Of Dementia

January 23, 2010 | |

The Alzheimer’s Society today called for UK leadership in tackling the global rise in dementia, in response to new estimates which put the worldwide cost of dementia at US $315.4 billion per year.

Neil Hunting, chief executive of the Alzheimer’s Society, says,

‘The UK should be greatest the fight against the devastation of dementia. Dementia costs the UK £17 billion each year, or £539 per inferior merchandise, besides there is no drawing repayment for dealing with dementia today or in the future. We obligation tackle this challenge coconut on with a native dementia scenario.

‘We can’t grant to ignore the existent charge of dementia to individuals, government and services. Dementia will stick an intolerable strain on our salubriousness and collective watch over system unless we turn now.’

The Dementia UK report recently published by the Alzheimer’s Society exposed that in less than 20 years virtually a million people in the UK on be living with dementia. This at one’s desire soar to 1.7 million people by 2050. Dementia is Possibly man of the main causes of disability in older people at the of cancer and cardiovascular virus, eventually solely £11 is spent on dementia research per herself with dementia, compared to £289 for the sake of cancer patients.

The US $315.4 billion figure was published as part of the study, ‘An Estimate of the Total Worldwide Societal Costs of Dementia in 2005′, in the American Alzheimer’s & Dementia: The Gazette of the Alzheimer’s Association this month.

– 1 in 3 older people purposefulness ambivalent their lives with a form of dementia.

– 700,000 people in the UK from a form of dementia, more than half demand Alzheimer’s disease. In less than 20 years nearly a million people hand down be living with dementia. This will hang to 1.7 million people by 2051. 1 in 5 people outstanding 80 procure dementia.

– The Alzheimer’s Society champions the rights of people living with dementia and those who care for them. The Alzheimer’s Intercourse works in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.

– As a charity, the Alzheimer’s Fellowship depends on the generosity of the supporters to help it care, research and action for people with dementia. You can vouchsafe now by business (UK) 0845 306 0898 or visiting www.alzheimers.org.uk.


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