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Alzheimer's Society

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Namib Desert Challenge · 26 March 2012

At Alzheimer’s Society we’re working towards a world where dementia no longer devastates lives. We do this by giving help to those living with dementia today, and providing hope for the future by campaigning to make dementia the priority it should be and funding groundbreaking research.

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<p><strong><span style="color: #333399;">Did you know</span><span style="color: #333399;">:</span></strong></p> <p><span style="color: #333399;"><strong>There are currently 750,000 people with dementia in the UK.</strong><br><strong>There are over 16,000 younger people with dementia in the UK.</strong><br><strong>There will be over a million people with dementia by 2021.</strong><br><strong>60,000 deaths a year are directly attributable to dementia.</strong><br><strong>The financial cost of dementia to the UK is over &pound;20 billion a year.</strong><br><strong>Family carers of people with dementia save the UK over &pound;6 billion a year.</strong><br><strong>Only 40% of people with dementia receive a diagnosis</strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><br></span></span></p>

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