Dementia: 'Britain And The World Must Do More'
The Health Secretary announces a new drive to improve diagnosis rates and ensure more sufferers get the support they need.

大幅提高癡呆癥確診率成為英國未來兩年社會保障的首要目標(biāo)，與癡呆癥抗衡也是首相卡梅倫為下次競選備戰(zhàn)的有力武器。英國衛(wèi)生部長杰里米·亨特稱現(xiàn)在癡呆癥的確診率低于50%，仍有35萬有相關(guān)癥狀的人尚未確診，而卡梅倫政府的目標(biāo)是2015年確診率達到三分之二，并幫助所有領(lǐng)取養(yǎng)老金者實現(xiàn)此疾病的醫(yī)療救助。

據(jù)世界衛(wèi)生組織統(tǒng)計，目前全球以阿爾茲海默癥患者為主的癡呆癥患者總數(shù)約3560萬，并以每年770萬的速度增長。在中國，65歲以上的老年人發(fā)病率為5%，而每5個80歲以上的老人中，就有一個患者。

Jaimy Anderson knows how destructive dementia can be, for 10 years he watched his dad Jerry slowly lose his battle with it, a once brilliant mind which created TV show Founder Birds devastated by Alzheimers.
The first point where we became really really aware of it was when he started having real difficulty driving back from P studios, he worked at P studios for decades, and knew the route like the back of his hand, and suddenly he was dired to have to use the satellite all the time to get there, and then the final point where the tipping point came where he took 6 hours to make the trip from P to home, and that would normally take 40 minutes.
As David Cameron continues his tour of the US, he is expected to pledge more money to improve dementia detection rates, he also used the G8 presidency to boost global research, the hope is to cut the number of undiagnosed sufferers, a move being welcomed by campaigners.
This is about the long term solution to find a cure, we spend 1/8 the amount of money on dementia research as we do on cancer research, so we need more scientists, but that takes time.
Under the new plan, by 2015 66 million pounds will be spent on dementia research every year, the aim is to nearly double diagnosis rates from 37% to 67%, it's hoped it will mean more support for the UK's 800,000 sufferers and their families.
Alzheimers doesn't just affect the patient, it affects the patient's nearest and dearest and people further away from them, the requirement for support spreads out a lot further than you think, and it's a lot more intense than you think it is to.
Fighting dementia is a mammoth task, but those affected hope if we can detect it sooner, thousands more patients will get the treatment that they need.