These are statistics I have just read on AS Site:
There are 850,000 people with dementia in the UK, with numbers set to rise to over 1 million by 2025. This will soar to 2 million by 2051.
225,000 will develop dementia this year, that’s one every three minutes.
1 in 6 people over the age of 80 have dementia.
70 per cent of people in care homes have dementia or severe memory problems.
There are over 40,000 people under 65 with dementia in the UK.
More than 25,000 people from black, Asian and minority ethnic groups in the UK are affected.
I thought everyone would be like me when diagnosed, would be running around trying to find out all the information, help and advice that was out there.... grasping for hope... but I'm not sure they are... so why not?
I noticed that there are less than 59.000 registered here... this is a large number, but is this an accumulative number, the number of people that have registered since AS site was set up? How many active members are there?
I also noticed Robots outnumbering the forum than members at this time, but what do these do? I've added a snapshot of this.
There are 850,000 people with dementia in the UK, with numbers set to rise to over 1 million by 2025. This will soar to 2 million by 2051.
225,000 will develop dementia this year, that’s one every three minutes.
1 in 6 people over the age of 80 have dementia.
70 per cent of people in care homes have dementia or severe memory problems.
There are over 40,000 people under 65 with dementia in the UK.
More than 25,000 people from black, Asian and minority ethnic groups in the UK are affected.
I thought everyone would be like me when diagnosed, would be running around trying to find out all the information, help and advice that was out there.... grasping for hope... but I'm not sure they are... so why not?
I noticed that there are less than 59.000 registered here... this is a large number, but is this an accumulative number, the number of people that have registered since AS site was set up? How many active members are there?
I also noticed Robots outnumbering the forum than members at this time, but what do these do? I've added a snapshot of this.