Old Gold Campaign – Alzheimer’s Society

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Hello All

I would like to make people aware of the worthy use this campaign makes of unwanted jewellery.

Old Gold has been a huge success for the Alzheimer’s Society, raising over £370,000 since it started over a year ago. This amount could be used to fully fund their research department for 3 years, working to better understand the cause of dementia, improve the ability to care for those who have it and ultimately to find a cure to defeat it.

The Old Gold appeal is on going and I hope that you will take the time to pass on their new free post address (below) to anyone who may be interested in making a donation and to help spread the word about the Old Gold campaign. Every donation will help.

Freepost RRUL-HZKT-YHKG
Alzheimer’s Society
Devon House
58 St Katherine’s Way
London
E1W 1LB

Tel: 020 7423 3500
Fax: 020 7423 3501
Email: [EMAIL="info@alzheimers.org.uk"]info@alzheimers.org.uk[/EMAIL]
Link: http://www.alzheimers.org.uk


Statistics:

• There are currently 700,000 people with dementia in the UK.
• There are currently 15,000 younger people with dementia in the UK.
• There are over 11,500 people with dementia from black and minority ethnic groups in the UK.
• There will be over a million people with dementia by 2025.
• Two thirds of people with dementia are women.
• The proportion of people with dementia doubles for every 5 year age group.
• One third of people over 95 have dementia.
• 60,000 deaths a year are directly attributable to dementia.
• Delaying the onset of dementia by 5 years would reduce deaths directly attributable to dementia by 30,000 a year.
• The financial cost of dementia to the UK is over £17 billion a year.
• Family carers of people with dementia save the UK over £6 billion a year.
• 64% of people living in care homes have a form of dementia.
• Two thirds of people with dementia live in the community while one third live in a care home.

Many thanks for reading this post. Please forward it onto family, friends, neighbours & colleagues.

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