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EVERY DAY IS SPECIAL NOW
There are 750,000 people with dementia in the UK and by 2021 there will be more than a million
Friday October 7,2011
By Joanna Della-Ragione
LOSING your brain is akin to losing your life, though we mostly associate dementia with the very elderly who become bewildered, helpless and sometimes unable to perform the simplest tasks.
Indeed that’s what hardworking Tom Coppins thought, at least until he was diagnosed with the disease himself. “If you get a lump the first thing you think of is cancer,” says former lorry driver Tom, 59. “But if your memory starts going in your 50s you don’t automatically think of dementia.
Chloe Smith MP met with Professor Peter Passmore to discuss dementia
CHLOE SMITH MP CHAMPIONS IMPROVED DEMENTIA CARE FOR NORWICH NORTH
In advance of World Alzheimer’s Day (21st September), Norwich North MP, Chloe Smith is calling on local health services to help improve standards of care in Alzheimer’s disease (AD) by following the latest advice from the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) on drug treatment.
TV stars sign up for run
Richard, whose mum had Alzheimer’s, will be doing the run for the third year in a row.
Two South Yorkshire celebrities will lead the Alzheimer’s Society team in this weekend’s Great Yorkshire Run.
Sheffield-born Richard McCourt, one half of TV presenting duo Dick and Dom, and Life on Mars and Ashes to Ashes star Dean Andrews, born in Rotherham, are both lending their support to the charity.
