LONDON (Reuters) - Dementia costs Britain 23 billion pounds ($37 billion) a year, more than cancer and heart disease combined, and the number of sufferers is expected to rise nearly 20 percent to over a million by 2025, experts said Wednesday. A study for the Alzheimer's Research Trust (ART) by Oxford University researchers found that the cost of caring for ...

This Sunday is World Alzheimer's Day, an annual event, and it's happening this year at rather an encouraging time. It is encouraging not because of any great breakthrough in the diagnosis or treatment of this terrible disease, but because sufferers and their relatives are increasingly willing to talk about it. Carol Thatcher was harshly rebuked in the Daily ...