Image Nick Youngson CC BY-SA 3.0 Alpha Stock Images As it happens, September is Dementia Awareness Month in Australia and World Alzheimer’s Month in other parts of the World. There is also a special World Alzheimer’s Day on September 21. st Dementia is the blanket term for several forms of progressive cognitive decline, but Alzheimer’s Disease, itself representing at least three different conditions, accounts for about 60 – 80% of cases, so the two terms are often used interchangeably. However, neither is an inevitable consequence of ageing. In either case, Dementia is a growing problem around the world and is already the world’s 7 th leading cause of death. According to Alzheimer’s Internationa l approximately 55 million people suffer from Dementia today with that number expected to rise to around 139 million by 2050. Apart from Climate Change, this is likely to become one of the biggest challenges societies will face in future. The aim of such comme...
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