Dementia

It’s great it’s finally getting some good press and people are being made more aware of it. Cancer receives more funding that dementia and yet with an ageing population, this (dementia and other neurodegenerative disorders) is soon going to be a huge problem.

[TED talk] http://www.ted.com/talks/gregory_petsko_on_the_coming_neurological_epidemic.html

Following the above article, it was recently announced that a large sum of money was being allocated to dementia research. But my question is how is that divided (the money is NOT ring fenced, meaning that no specific points to focus on have been highlighted) and who is regulating what goes where. It’s great to have the money but a bit useless if you don’t know where it needs to be used. We need aims and objectives to be identified first, then appropriate funding allocated; a clearly organised and structured funding process.

But I suppose at least some headway is being made both in terms of funding and new treatments as shown in this second article.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1273924/Powerful-new-drugs-switch-memory-brain-giving-hope-Alzheimers-sufferers.html 
http://cme.medscape.com/viewarticle/704667?src=cmenews&uac=126316FT