The fight against dementia must be pursued with the same vigour that turned the tide on cancer, Baroness Casey says

The fight against dementia must be pursued with the same vigour that turned the tide on cancer, Baroness Louise Casey has told the Daily Mail.

Lady Casey, chair of the Independent Commission on Adult Social Care, called on ministers to make dementia ‘Britain’s next great national mission – just as cancer was for previous generations’.

Her intervention comes as a new report by Alzheimer’ Society and The King’s Fund think tank warns dementia care in England remains ‘stuck in the last century’ and is in need of a radical overhaul.

Huge leaps in cancer survival over the past 50 years give policymakers the

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