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This 38 page document was produced by the Health Economics Research Centre at the University of Oxford for Alzheimer's Research UK.

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The cost of dementia

Alzheimer's Research UK has commissioned the Health Economics Research Centre at the University of Oxford to produce a report on the economic cost of dementia to the UK, and the country's investment in research to find new treatments, preventions and cures.

The Oxford team's findings are astonishing. They show dementia to be the greatest medical challenge of our time.

  • Over 820,000 people in the UK live with Alzheimer's and other dementias.
  • Dementia costs the UK economy £23 billion per year: more than cancer and heart disease combined.
  • Dementia research is severely underfunded, receiving 12 times less support than cancer research.

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Dementia in the UK

Rebecca Wood, Chief Executive, Alzheimer's Research UK

"The UK's dementia crisis is worse than we feared. This report shows that dementia is the greatest medical challenge of the 21st century."

Rebecca Wood, Chief Executive, Alzheimer's Research UK