Very few families remain untouched by the ravages of dementia. It is the UK’s biggest killer, accounting for one in nine deaths and taking 76,000 lives per year.
Yet approaches to treating the illness are firmly stuck in the last century. This may well be partly due to a lingering – but erroneous – belief that the symptoms are inevitable consequences of growing older.
But if it is crucial to rid ourselves of that misconception, it is equally important to consider progress in other areas of healthcare where prospects once looked bleak.
Writing in today’s Daily Mail, Baroness Casey points out that the
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