Dementia UK

Dementia UK

A report into the prevalence and cost of dementia prepared by the Personal Social Services Research Unit (PSSRU) at the London School of Economics and the Institute of Psychiatry at King’s College London, for the Alzheimer’s Society
Project directors: Professor Martin Knapp and Professor Martin Prince Research team: Dr Emiliano Albanese, Professor Sube Banerjee, Sujith Dhanasiri, Dr Jose-Luis Fernandez, Dr Cleusa Ferri, Professor Martin Knapp, Dr Paul McCrone, Professor Martin Prince, Tom Snell, Dr Robert Stewart
Alzheimer’s Society 2007

Available online as PDF file [103p.] at: http://www.alzheimers.org.uk/News_and_Campaigns/Campaigning/PDF/Dementia_UK_Full_Report.pdf

“….It is now over a century since 1906 when German neurologist Alois Alzheimer diagnosed the disease which bears his name. What progress has been made? How much better do we understand the diseases that cause dementia? As our population ages, Alzheimer’s disease and other causes of dementias are becoming ever more common and important. We urgently need to understand the impact of dementia in the UK now and in the future. This report is an attempt to answer these key questions and to inform a serious debate about how we as a society can respond to the challenges posed by dementia.

There has been significant progress since 1906, both in our scientific understanding of dementia and public awareness about the diseases which cause it.
We know more now than we ever did. We know that dementia is not a natural part of ageing and that it is caused by a variety of diseases which affect people in different ways. We also now have a range of options to treat the symptoms of dementia and to offer practical support to people with dementia and their families. However, we are a long way from fully understanding dementia and being able to offer a comprehensive response…..”

Content:
1 Introduction
2 The Expert Delphi Consensus on the prevalence of dementia in the UK
3 Number of people with dementia in the UK
3.1 Calculation methods
3.2 Number of people with dementia in the United Kingdom
3.3 Projected increases in the number of people with dementia in the United Kingdom
3.4 Regional variation
3.5 Young onset dementia
3.6 Projected increases in the number of people with young onset dementia
3.7 Number of people with young onset dementia, by age and gender
3.8 Late onset dementia
3.9 Projected increases in the number of people with late onset dementia
3.10 Number of people with late onset dementia, by age and gender
3.11 Dementia subtype
3.12 Residential status
3.13 Ethnicity
3.14 Mortality
3.15 Conclusions
4 Service development
5 Mapping social service provision
Residential care provision
Home care provision
Day care provision
Comparisons of indicators across countries
6 The financial cost of dementia in the UK
7 Recommendations
References
Appendices