Alzheimer’s Research UK, the UK’s leading dementia research charity, is calling for a government commitment to fund more dementia research than ever before following new figures from National Records of Scotland released today.
The figures show that dementia deaths shot up by 5.7 percent from the same time last year. In contrast, cancer deaths increased by 1.3 percent, coronary heart disease deaths fell by 3.1 percent, and respiratory disease deaths fell by 1.9 percent.
There are 90,000 people living with dementia in Scotland and more than 850,000 across the UK, a figure set to rise to 1 million by 2021. The condition costs the UK economy £26bn a year with over 80…
