Monthly Archives: March 2012
Nationwide dementia screening to tackle ‘crisis’ among elderly
The first nationwide NHS screening programme to identify dementia patients earlier is to be launched to battle Britain’s “crisis” among the elderly.
7:30AM BST 26 Mar 2012
Andrew Lansley, the Health Secretary, said there was a “moral imperative” to diagnose sufferers earlier so they could receive better treatment.
The announcement comes as David Cameron warns today that the dementia crisis facing the country is on a par with high rates of HIV and cancer in previous decades.
Living life with Scotland’s carers
Living life with Scotland’s carers
By Fiona Walker BBC Scotland social affairs reporter
Looking after someone’s every need, virtually unpaid, sometimes on duty 24/7, surely only saints need apply. Yet it s thought that three in five of us will be a carer at some point in our lives. They can’t all be expected to be saintly. I went to see how they do it.
Dementia research funding set to rise to £66m by 2015
Care Services Minister Paul Burstow: “Making dementia a national priority… is the way we can tackle this”
Funding for research into dementia is to be doubled to £66m by 2015 to try to make the UK a world leader in the field, David Cameron will announce.
The prime minister is expected to say in a speech that the level of diagnosis, understanding and awareness of dementia is “shockingly low”.
Dementia is thought to affect around 800,000 people in the UK, with the cost to society estimated at £23bn.
