The Dementia Tsunami?
Summary of the Bristol Festival of Ideas/MRC ICU talk by Carol Brayne , Director of the Cambridge Institute for Public Health titled “ Challenging the ‘Dementia Tsunami’ “. It’s pretty much common knowledge that life expectancy is increasing. This is in large part due to improvements in child health which means that more and more children survive into adulthood. But even for those who reached adulthood, living into dotage was an uncommon occurrence until relatively recently. Unfortunately, by fixing the health problems of the young we are finding that there are a myriad of health problems in the old - you win some, you lose some.