Cutting-edge UK research programmes
The Alzheimer's Research Trust's innovative and groundbreaking research programmes are the best in their field and offer real hope of making breakthroughs in the fight against dementia. Find out more about our core research activity.
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Dementia 2010 report reveals true impact of dementia on UK
The Alzheimer's Research Trust's Dementia 2010 report reveals that dementia is the greatest medical challenge of our time, affecting 820,000 people and costing the economy £23 billion per year. Despite this, dementia research remains severely underfunded compared with other major conditions such as cancer.
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What are we achieving
Read about the latest research news and projects the Trust is involved in and working on.
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Hope through research
“There's only two ways it can go: researchers, with as much help we can give them, may come up with something that reduces the effects of this dreadful, inhuman disease, or we will have to face the consequences of our failure to prevent the final years of many of us being a long bad dream. The strain on carers and their support is bad enough now; before very long the effects on the health service and society itself will be unbearable.”
Sir Terry Pratchett OBE, Patron of the Alzheimer's Research Trust