Researchers have found the percentage of people developing dementia in the most at-risk, older age groups is no longer falling
New research indicates that the proportion of people getting dementia started to increase again in England and Wales after 2008 – rising by 25.2 per cent between 2008 and 2016 The number of people living with dementia in England and Wales is set to double to 1.
“We hypothesise that the obesity epidemic – the prevalence of adult obesity rose rapidly from 1975 to 2000 – might have contributed to increasing dementia incidence in recent cohorts of older people. Previous studies, based on data up to 2010, showed that the proportion of older people who got dementia had decreased by 28.8 per cent between 2002 and 2008.
James White, Alzheimer’s Society’s head of national influencing, said: “Statistics from this Lancet Public Health study are a stark reminder that, without action, the individual and economic devastation caused by dementia shows no sign of stopping.”
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