World Alzheimer's Month

September 2012 marks the first global World Alzheimer's Month, an international campaign to raise awareness and challenge the stigma attached to dementia. In 2010, it was estimated that 36 million people worldwide were living with the illness.The figure is expected to rise to 66 million by 2030. Currently in the UK, up to 820 thousand people live with dementia.

VOR's Juliet Spare discusses dementia and what needs to be done to beat Alzheimer's with her guests: Beth Britton a freelance writer, blogger & dementia campaigner after her father lived with vascular dementia for the last 19 years of his life; Professor of Neurochemistry and Director of Brains for Dementia Research at King's College London, Paul Francis; Independent Health and Social Care Consultant, Janet Crampton; and on the telephone, Leon Smith, Chief Executive of Nightingale, a partly publicly funded residential care home that specializes in dementia.

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