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The cost of dementia
The Alzheimer's Research Trust has commissioned the Health Economics Research Centre at the University of Oxford to produce a report on the economic cost of dementia to the UK, and the country's investment in research to find new treatments, preventions and cures.
The Oxford team's findings are astonishing. They show dementia to be the greatest medical challenge of our time.
•Over
820,000 people in the UK live with Alzheimer's and other dementias.
•Dementia costs the UK economy £23 billion per year: more than cancer and heart disease combined.
•Dementia research is severely underfunded, receiving 12 times less support than cancer research.
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