29th July Charity Grand Prize Draw - Alzheimer’s Research Trust

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All proceeds from the Grand Prize Draw goes to the Alzheimer’s Research Trust (Registered Charity No: 1077089)

Tickets £1 each
1ST PRIZE: A laptop computer
2ND PRIZE: Tea for two at The Ritz Hotel
3RD PRIZE: £250 cash

Runners-up prizes: Nicole Farhi designer handbag; Designer pottery worth £100 (Lowerdown Pottery); Signed Cliff Richard autobiography; £100 voucher from Cambridge University Press; John Lewis Breville blender; Dinner for Two at Home House, West London; Luxury Chocolates; Bouquet of Flowers.

Closing date: Wednesday 22nd July 2009
Draw takes place on Wednesday 29th July 2009

The Alzheimer’s Research Trust is the UK’s leading dementia research charity. It funds research into the causes, treatment and prevention of Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias.

Proceeds from this draw will be used to activate new lines of research into the treatment and prevention of Alzheimer’s. If you would like to buy book(s) of tickets or help sell extra books of tickets to friends, family, work colleagues or if you’d like to know more about their work, here are their details:

Address: Alzheimer’s Research Trust, The Stables, Station Road, Great Shelford, Cambridge, CB22 5LR
Email: [EMAIL="enquiries@alzheimers-research.org.uk"]enquiries@alzheimers-research.org.uk[/EMAIL]
Website: www.alzheimers-research.org.uk
Tel: 01223 843 899
Fax: 01223 843 325

Dementia statistics:
There are 700,000 people living with dementia in the UK today, a number forecast to double within a generation.

25 million people, or 42% of the UK population, are affected by dementia through knowing a close friend or family member with the condition.

Just 2.5% of the government's medical research budget is spent on dementia research, while a quarter is spent on cancer research.

1 in 3 over 65s will die with some form of dementia.

163,000 new cases of dementia occur in England and Wales each year - one every 3.2 minutes.

The number of people with cognitive impairment, which is most commonly caused by dementia, is expected to increase by 66 percent between 1998 and 2031 to 765,000 individuals.

According to the Dementia UK report from King's College London and the London School of Economics (commissioned by the Alzheimer's Society) dementia currently costs the UK over £17billion per year.

Dementia costs in the UK will reach almost £35 billion within 20 years according to the King's Fund's 2008 report 'Paying the Price'.

Unless treatments are found the number of people with cognitive impairment who will be placed in institutions is expected to rise by more than 63 percent from 224,000 in 1998 to 365,000 in 2031.

If scientists could develop a treatment that would reduce severe cognitive impairment in older people by just 1% per year, this would cancel out all estimated increases in the long-term care costs due to our ageing population.

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