Pratchett calls on government to increase dementia funding
Published 26 November 2008
Terry Pratchett OBE will call on the government to confront the ‘worldwide tsunami’ of dementia and urgently increase funding into dementia research.
Terry Pratchett presents a petition to Downing Street on Wednesday 24 November at 2pm on behalf of an Alzheimer's Research Trust campaign.Alzheimer's Society comment,
'Alzheimer's Society fully supports Terry Pratchett's campaign.
It is absolutely essential that the government increases investment in dementia research. If we do nothing now, one million people will develop the condition in the next 10 years.
The forthcoming research summit planned by the government is a crucial opportunity to address the fact that dementia research is drastically underfunded.
One in three people over 65 will die with dementia, yet just 3% of the government's medical research budget is spent on dementia. With the right investment, this devastating condition can be defeated.
Neil Hunt
Chief Executive
Alzheimer's Society
Watch Terry Pratchett talk about diagnosis, stigma and living with dementia in these four part videos
