Dementia Awareness Week aims to raise understanding of the often heartbreaking process of trying to get NHS funding
Tenacious Ann Reid has fought hard to get Continuing Healthcare funding for her mother Peggy Belcher. Photograph: Sam Mellish/Age U
More than 50,000 carers will have to quit their jobs to look after loved ones with dementia this year, research shows.
Dementia care costs businesses in England £1.6billion a year and 66,000 employees have to adjust their work schedule to make time for their caring responsibilities.
Public Health England and leading health charity, the Alzheimer’s Society, have joined forces in a major campaign to encourage the public to tackle one of the nation’s biggest health issues.
Losing interest in hobbies and other activities in older age could be an early sign of dementia, according to scientists.
Apathy in older people suggests a loss of grey matter and offers doctors a new tool with which to identify a group of the population at risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease.
A study showed elderly people who are apathetic but not suffering depression have shrinking amounts of grey and white matter – neurons in the brain that control memory and communication respectively.
