Dementia is the UK’s biggest killer, the defining health and social care challenge of our time. However despite what many people believe, dementia is not an inevitable part of ageing.
Currently 982,000 live with dementia in the UK, yet hundreds of thousands of people remain in the dark about their diagnosis, locked out of care and, support, and treatment opportunities that research brings. For those who are diagnosed there remains no cure - only care, and the care and treatment options that exist are often disjointed, inaccessible and inadequate for people with dementia and their families and carers.
Living with dementia can mean fear and confusion, it can be exhausting and overwhelming, but, put simply, it doesn’t have to be this way. When people affected by dementia have access to tailored, specialist care and support, it can be life-changing. It helps people up and down the country feel more confident, hopeful and in control.
We come together as leading organisations to demand better for people living with dementia now, and for future generations. A new UK Government has a unique opportunity to transform the lives of people affected today. The chance to support scientific breakthroughs of the future. The chance to make significant, tangible progress for everyone accessing our health and social care systems.
Whoever comes into power on 4 July, we urge them not to miss this chance. We urge them to make dementia a priority.
The scale of the challenge, the daily struggles that people living with dementia and their families face, and the opportunity for new treatments, and a cure, are why the next UK Government must make dementia a priority.
Join us, and show the next Government that they have the chance to take action for the 1 in 2 of us who will be affected by dementia in our lifetime. Share our calls, and help us transform the course of dementia over this next Parliament and beyond.
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