The Future of Dementia

Dementia remains the biggest killer in the UK and is on track to be the nation’s most expensive health condition by 2030. If nothing changes, one in two of us will be directly affected by it – either by caring for someone with the condition, developing it ourselves or both.

But we believe there is a substantial opportunity to change this outlook. New ways of diagnosing the diseases that cause dementia earlier and more accurately, like blood tests for Alzheimer’s disease, are showing promise. New treatments that can affect the course of Alzheimer’s disease could be approved in the UK in just a few months’ time. New insights are showing how we can reduce the prevalence of dementia in the first place by addressing factors that affect our brain health.

But this can only happen if political parties commit to sustained, bold and ambitious action at the forthcoming general election. We call on all political parties to harness the outcomes of dementia research to revolutionize the way we prevent, diagnose and treat dementia.