The scale and cost of dementia soars

The cost of dementia to the UK has hit £26 billion a year finds an Alzheimer’s Society report published today. Yet people with dementia, their carers and families shoulder two-thirds of the cost themselves.  The charity is urging the government to end the artificial divide between health and social care which unfairly disadvantages people with dementia. The new research also reveals that numbers of those affected by dementia is soaring. By the next general election in 2015, there will be 850,000 people living with dementia. If current trends stay the same and no action is taken, this number is expected to