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David Behan, Director General for Social Care talks about the Prime Minister’s challenge on dementia

March 29, 2012   Alzheimer’s, Carers, dementia

The Prime Ministers’s challenge on dementia

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4D-NKSMVYHc&feature=youtu.be

David talks about the Prime Minister’s challenge on dementia to society about how we respond to people that have dementia to support them to live the lives they want to live.

Key points

The Prime Minister as challenged us all to:

  • raise the awareness around dementia
  • develop the capability and capacity of staff working with people with dementia
  • increase the numbers of people diagnosed with dementia (only 40% of people with dementia receive a formal diagnosis)
  • ensure the quality of services is to a high standard
  • ensure a research programme can be conducted.

The three workstreams

  1. raising awareness
  2. improving quality of care and health services for people with dementia
  3. set an ambitious program for development of research into dementia
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Nationwide dementia screening to tackle ‘crisis’ among elderly

March 26, 2012   Cancer, dementia

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.

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Dementia research funding set to rise to £66m by 2015

March 26, 2012   Alzheimer’s, Carers, dementia

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.

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