Official estimates for the number of UK dementia cases are set to double in the next 30 years, at a cost to our children of around 50 billion GBP annually!
Further, the incidence of the affliction in younger people is increasing.
Some legacy!
The government plans to unveil its new strategy on dementia which will include "memory clinics" to identify the condition earlier so that sufferers can remain independent for longer.
Dementia charities feel that more should go towards "finding a cure" as well as improving the lives of sufferers.
Of course, all this is laudable. I understand resources allocated for palliative care. But cure over prevention? Again?
I may not know much, but it seems to me that a complete paradym shift is in order.
Without a change in primary focus everyone will continue in firefighting mode and more and more resources will be needed. And we all know what that means!
Even worse the scale of suffering will continue increasing.
What's changed? Why is the condition virtually unknown in certain populations? Are they genetically different? Come on ... it has to have something to do with the way we are living.
But I'm sure the custodians of our health have thought this all through.
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