We must hope that making the World a more dementia friendly community must be an outcome of the #G8 Conference which begins in London today. The television coverage has already had the UK Secretary for Health and the Chief Executive Officer of #Alzheimer's Society talking to me this morning. [Please do not be mislead I am watching them talking to the presenter.]
The #G8 Summit on Dementia is intended to build a global approach to dealing with the various dementias which afflict increasing numbers of us - World population. Hopefully, you, I and many millions more will begin talking about dementia to our family, friends workmates and strangers. Awareness and information needs to increase markedly so that the fears and stigmas surrounding the dementias are mitigated or eliminated (latter is the final scenario).
I'll try and give you a few leads to what is being discussed at the G8 Summit as the few days pass.
Research Expenditure on research on questions arising about dementia seems to be a theme - it was highlighted this morning at breakfast. My understanding is that in the Uk it is severely underfunded at present and that our national dementia strategy has an extra £66 million allocated by 2015 over what was set aside.
