Charity urges government to triple research spending on dementia

The UK government should commit 1 per cent of the annual cost of dementia to research into the fatal condition, Alzheimer’s Research UK has said.

The call is one of five actions for government unveiled by the charity on 24 September.  

The others are: doubling the number of scientists and volunteers taking part in dementia research; allocating more efforts to detect the diseases that cause dementia before symptoms appear; increasing awareness of how people can reduce their risk; and shortening the time that it takes for a novel treatment to be offered to patients.