D. Telegraph 7.11.12 “DEMENTIA TIME-BOMB WARNINGS AS DEATHS RISE”

The proportion of people dying from dementia has more than doubled in 10 years, with predictions that by 2021 it could account for 1 in 8 deaths. Every 10th woman in England & Wales now dies of dementia – up from 4.3% in 2001, according to mortality figures from 2011 from Office for National Statistics.

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