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21/09/2009
The number of people with dementia is expected to almost double in the next twenty years, according to new data. In a Dementia Special, Claudia Hammond talks to Professor Martin Prince.
Shocking new figures reveal that the number of people with dementia is expected to almost double in the next twenty years. In a special edition of Health Check, to mark World Alzheimer's Day, Claudia Hammond talks to Professor Martin Prince from the Institute of Psychiatry at King’s College, London, about why we are sitting on a global time-bomb, and what can be done.
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