I am old, not stupid!
I may be white haired, a little hard of hearing and don't move as fast as I used to but haven't suddenly become an idiot.

News reports often quote figures like:

** There are 850,000 people with dementia in the UK, with numbers set to rise to over 1 million by 2025. This will soar to 2 million by 2051.

** 225,000 will develop dementia this year.

** 1 in 6 (16.6666%) people over the age of 80 have dementia.

Dementia and other diseases can affect cognitive function but sufferers are still a smaller percentage than those of us that do not suffer.

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