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Dementia 2010 report
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About the Alzheimer's Research Trust
Dementia 2010 report
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Who's signed EDM 805 so far?
Lobby your MP and help defeat dementia
Email your MP to urge them to support calls for an
urgently needed increase in dementia research funding
during the coming general election campaign.
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As a constituent, I am writing to ask what your party is doing about dementia research, and to urge you to sign EDM 805 on making dementia research a national priority. This February, the Alzheimer’s Research Trust published the Dementia 2010 report (www.dementia2010.org). In the report, Oxford University economists revealed that dementia is the greatest medical challenge of our time, afflicting 820,000 people in the UK while costing our economy £23 billion each year: twice the cost of cancer, and three times that of heart disease. Despite this, dementia research remains severely underfunded, receiving twelve times less investment from government and charities than cancer research. Sir Terry Pratchett, Patron of the Alzheimer’s Research Trust, got it right when he said: “There's only two ways it can go: researchers, with as much help you can give them, may come up with something that reduces the effects of this dreadful, inhuman disease, or we will have to face the consequences of our failure to prevent the final years of many of us being a long bad dream. The strain on carers and their support is bad enough now; before very long the effects on the health service and society itself, will be unbearable.” I hope you will do everything possible to ensure dementia research receives its rightful priority from your party, the government and the wider public. British scientists are world-leaders. Let’s harness their talent to make dementia a thing of the past.
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