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World Service,03 Aug 2010,28 mins

21/09/2009

Health Check

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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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