Tackling the cost of dementia

A report from the London School of Economics and Institute of Psychiatry reveals 700,000 people currently have dementia in the UK, which incurs a yearly cost of £17bn. Without even taking into account inflation, if 1.7 million people have dementia by 2051 it will cost the health and social care systems a massive £41bn a year. But it is not just the health system that will suffer – in the majority of cases the bulk of the cost of caring for people with dementia is met by the sufferers themselves and their families. With the costs of caring for one person with late-onset dementia reachi...