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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.
New projects offer dementia hope
The project is based at Oxford’s John Radcliffe Hospital.
10:00am Monday 19th March 2012 in News
TWO multi-million pound projects have just been launched in Oxford in the hope of one day finding a cure.
Over the next five years, the LEAD (longitudinal early Alzheimer’s disease) project will see a group of about 200 people from across the county and country monitored to find a way of slowing down, and curing, the progression of Alzheimer’s – the most common form of dementia.
Meeting in Mojacar for British carers!
British Carers let off steam in Mojacar
GRATEFUL: Carer Fanny Davies (purple sweater) says thank you to the Vera Lions and Almeria Angels, for their ongoing support.
BRITISH carers from Mojacar, neighbouring towns and further afield (Agua Amarga and Mazarron), met to “let off Steam” over cups of tea and cake at the Mana del Cielo café, Mojacar, recently.
Fanny Davies whose husband suffers from Alzheimer’s, started the Carers Support Group Mojacar about a year ago.
She said she was beginning to get desperate because there was no support network in English.
Even though Davies speaks some Spanish, she said she felt the need for and English-speaking support group.
The group is for anyone with dependents, but also for people who have time and are willing to help by volunteering as carers, drivers or being part of the support network in any way.
Davies invites carers, their dependents and new volunteers to come to the support group day at Turre Evangelical church hall on Thursday March 15 from 11am to 2pm.
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