Responding to the future dementia ‘time bomb’

As David Cameron and the rest of the leaders at the G8 prepare to discuss the complex and costly issues surrounding dementia, CCMn looks at what type of provision most suitable for caring for people at different stages of the disease and what are the key factors going forward to make this type of service the best it can be. According to the Alzheimer’s Society, there were 800,000 people in the UK suffering from dementia in 2012. This number is expected to rise to 1m by 2021 and 1.7m in 2051. But, argues director of care at the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) John Kennedy, all these people will not be in or need to be specialist dementia units.