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The actress Lynda Bellingham has spoken about her anger that dementia drugs came too late to save her mother's mind and are still not available to all patients. Bellingham, 60, who became famous for playing the homely matriarch from the Oxo television commercials, said that her mother had dementia for ten years before she died in 2004, but was not given the drugs she needed in time.Aricept, which improves memory and day-to-day life for Alzheimer's suffers, costs about £2.50 a day. The NHS currently only gives it to people with severe forms of the disease, a small proportion of the 700,000 people in Britain with Alzheimer's.

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Dementia patients in Tayside have been on a 'voyage of discovery' by a creative arts project run by a local authority. Techniques range from collage and marbling to photography. The project is a pilot scheme to encourage participants creativity and introduce them to new activities and techniques.

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Only one in three people with dementia ever gets a formal diagnosis from a doctor, but the gradual, inexorable decline of memory and acuity will be all too visible to relatives and carers who see their loved ones slip away slowly in later life.

Evidence suggests that the main way to prevent dementia is to live an active life, both mentally and physically. But, as the cases of Iris Murdoch, Terry Pratchett and now Margaret Thatcher testify, degenerative disease can strike even the most intellectually formidable characters. Indeed, dementia used to be considered not so much a disease as a life stage.



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The daughter of former UK prime minister Margaret Thatcher has spoken for the first time about her mother's struggle with dementia. In her new book, serialised in the Mail on Sunday, Carol Thatcher says she first noticed her mother's memory was failing over lunch in 2000. She says she "almost fell off her chair" seeing her mother, 82, struggle.

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