In the UK every 5 minutes someone gets dementia. This disease unleashes a devastating domino effect through families as they watch their loved ones slip away. The loss of mental awareness and emotional connection is the trademark of an illness now responsible for one in six deaths.
The disease had become the biggest health and social care challenge now a days. Up to a quarter of hospital beds at any one time are occupied by dementia patients. Alzheimer is the most common form for almost two-third of cases. Last year’s Apprentice winner Yasmina Sadatan tells about how she come face to face with the disease since her aunt, former NHS consultant Mary Hughes was diagnosed with dementia. Those feelings echo around 820.000 families living with dementia. A third of over 65s will die with some form of dementia. Only 2.5% of the government’s medical research budget is spent on dementia compared to 25% spent on cancer, according to the alzheimer’s research trust. The harsh statistics are that 15% of deaths each year are caused by dementia and that number can only rise.
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I did not know that dementia prevented that much. If this disease prevent that much why doesn’t the government give more than 2.5% medical research budget. I think most of the time everybody thinks cancer is a terrible disease. I think because the people who are suffering on cancer they experience a lot of pain themselves and also the relatives. The people who are suffering on dementia don’t feel the pain, the ones who are really suffering are the families because they forgot about them and the beautiful memories.
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I was shocked to read that this disease had become the biggest health and social care challenge now a days. I did not realise that! I think it has a huge impact on the family to see your loved ones slip away. That why this is such a terrible disease. I do not understand why the government only spends 2,5% on medical research on dementia while 15% of the deaths each year are caused by dementia. The government is spending 25% on cancer research. I did not read the statistics about how many people die each by the caused of cancer but if it is true than the government must spent more money on research on dementia.
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