Some good news: The medical world has targeted 2025 as the year that a dementia cure will be achieved – just 10 years from now.
Given the remarkable pace of medicine breakthroughs I am quietly confident they will achieve this goal. Maybe in time to save me – and of course the other 1 million Australians predicted to be diagnosed with dementia in my lifetime. Can you imagine that?
Today there are 330,000 people with dementia with 1.2 million people caring for them, according to our Minister for Health, Ms Sussan Ley. Multiply that by three if a cure is not found.
She has just announced $43 million in funding for 76 dementia researchers. This is on top of $35 million announced in August and all part of $200 million in funding promised at the last election (two years ago – September 2013).
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