UK charities in plea for more help with dementia
Leading health charities are calling for more to be done to help families support loved ones with dementia as it lags behind other diseases in terms of funding.
A data report from BBC Local News partnerships has laid bare the growth in dementia with some parts of the UK seeing the rate of diagnosis more than double in five years.
The Shared Data Unit has analysed the dementia registers of thousands of GP surgeries across the UK to paint a definitive regional picture.
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Hide AdLatest figures show there were around 508,000 people on the dementia register of England, Wales and Northern Ireland.