Thousands of dementia sufferers are being "failed" by a health system which does not diagnose their problems early enough or at all, the Government admitted yesterday - reports
The Daily Telegraph reports health experts claims that dementia is now costing society £539 a second.
Half of all victims never get a proper diagnosis, with symptoms attributed to "old age" because doctors are not trained to recognise the symptoms, and drugs are strictly rationed.
In a belated acknowledgement of the severity of the situation, Ivan Lewis, the care services minister, said the issue was "one of the great challenges now facing society" and that dementia must be "brought out of the shadows".
"The current system is failing too many dementia sufferers and their carers," he said, adding that the disease, "strikes fear into all of us".
Mr Lewis was speaking yesterday as he launched a group to work on a strategy to improve the diagnosis and treatment of dementia.
But how much money is he putting into tackling this serious problem - intro training of health workers and buying better (perhaps more expensive) drugs to ease people's suffering.
And could that amount be more if so much wasn't being wasted on the audit-failing EU?
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