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Dementia research 'funding gap'

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More than 820,000 people in the UK suffer from dementia, significantly higher than previous estimates. An Alzheimer's Research Trust reports found that the cost to the economy is £23bn a year, twice as much as cancer but gets a fraction of the funding.

Professor Alastair Gray from the Health Economics Research Centre at the University Oxford and the report's co-author, explains the findings.

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