Dementia diagnosis

Doctors told to improve dementia diagnosis

Jeremy Hunt has said that doctors will be set a target to diagnose another 160,000 dementia sufferers as part of a Government drive to tackle the incurable brain condition. Mr Hunt says the NHS currently has shockingly low dementia diagnosis rates, with 350,000 of the estimated 670,000 people with the illness unknowingly living with the condition. Meanwhile, Kate Murray in the Guardian asks whether we are wise about getting old. She says that as dementia rates rise and more people struggle with inadequate incomes more needs to be done to help the older population.