Advances for people living with dementia
New solutions to increase the number of patients receiving a timely formal diagnosis of dementia are to be rolled out by the end of the decade. With one million people in the UK living with dementia – a number expected to rise to 1.4 million by 2040 – researchers and industry have been backed by £5 million of initial funding to come up with ideas to improve the quality of life for those living with this devastating disease and ease pressure on the NHS.