On the plus side, only last week May's government announced further details of
the promised Dementia Research Institute, which is being set up at University College London with # 150 million of public money.
Not exact matches
But that outlay for
dementia research falls well short of those announced in recent years by the United States and the United Kingdom and even lags Canada's
promise at the G8
dementia summit 2 years ago in London to significantly ramp up its investment in
research on neurodegenerative diseases as part of a global bid to find a cure for
dementia by 2025.
Amid gloomy reports of an impending epidemic of Alzheimer's and other
dementias, emerging
research offers a
promising twist.