Alzheimers Awareness Week

EDM number 1172 in 1995-96, proposed by Alan Meale on 16/07/1996.

That this House is concerned that currently over 650,000 people in the United Kingdom suffer from dementia, a figure estimated to increase to over a million in the next 25 years; applauds the campaign of awareness recently launched by the Alzheimer's Disease Society to highlight recent advances in medical and scientific understanding of the causes of dementia; and calls upon Her Majesty's Government to ensure adequate levels of funding and support for dementia research to ensure new techniques are found to enable early diagnosis and the monitoring of future treatments.

This motion has been signed by a total of 70 MPs, 1 of these signatures have been withdrawn.