Not nice news from NICE (National Institute for Clinical Excellence)…
Alzheimer’s is one of the great problems of our age. Endless articles advise on eating certain types of food and taking various supplements to keep it at bay. It is certainly a very mysterious disease.
My mother had three siblings and all four lived to a ripe old age. One, however, was stricken with Alzheimer’s from about the age of 70. Having seen at first hand the consequences of this disease, I always support any campaign to raise awareness of this disease and its effects.
That is why I was happy to take on the role of Patron of the West Suffolk Alzheimer’s Society in my constituency.
It would be interesting to know the real reason why the Government decided against a drug which could be helpful in treating the disease in its early stages. Those who have taken it certainly believe this.
Is it really because it is clinically without value? This is not the view of sufferers and their families. Perhaps it is due to the massive funding crisis within the NHS at present. The difficulty is, knowing the way this Government operates, we will probably never know the real truth.
Whatever the reason, we are going to have to face the fact that with increased longetivity of life, this disease will come more and more to the forefront of public attention.