article_snippet.sent: Just 8p in every £10 spent looking after dementia patients goes on research into the causes, shocking figures reveal.
article_snippet.sent: The outlay on stroke research is little better, with 19p allocated from each £10 spent on the health and social needs of patients.
article_snippet.sent: A study says the amount spent by the Government and charities studying dementia and strokes is ‘still way too low’.
article_snippet.sent: Just 11 per cent of research funding from he Government and charities into the UK’s leading causes of death and disability was allocated to dementia, research has found .
article_snippet.sent: Despite extra cash pumped into the two diseases recently by government bodies, the two diseases remain underfunded given the economic and personal impact felt by millions of sufferers and the two diseases families, say researchers.
article_snippet.sent: Researchers assessed central government and charity research expenditure in 2012 into the UK’s leading causes of death and disability – cancer, coronary heart disease, dementia and stroke which together accounted for over half of all deaths.
article_snippet.sent: Around one-fifth was devoted to coronary heart disease, while just 11 per cent was allocated to dementia and 7 per cent to stroke research.
article_snippet.sent: a form of ageism’ where dementia and stroke are seen as inevitable only in the elderly.
article_snippet.sent: As a consequence less was spent on cancer because of the increasing emphasis on dementia and stroke, but these areas remain underfunded when compared with the burden of disease.
article_snippet.sent: Prof Gray said research funding was ‘still way too low’ in both diseases, especially for stroke.
article_snippet.sent: Dr Dale Webb, of the Stroke Association, said that if the ‘wholly inadequate’ level of research funding into stroke remains the same,
article_snippet.sent: Dr Dale Webb, of the Stroke Association will not be ready for the challenges a growing and ageing population will bring’.
highlights_snippet.sent: Just 11 per cent of research funding is allocated to dementia .
  