Dementia 'costing UK £23bn a year'
Updated on 03 February 2010
Dementia costs the country £23 billion per year and more than cancer and heart disease combined but receives a fraction of the funding, according to a "wake up call" report.
The number of sufferers at 822,000 is also 17% higher than has previously been estimated and will pass the one million mark before 2025, the Alzheimer's Research Trust said.
Revealing stark differences in research funding, it calculated that for every pound spent on dementia studies, £12 is spent on investigating cancer and £3 on heart disease.
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