HC Deb 22 May 1992 vol 208 cc295-6W
Mr. Morgan

To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) what proposals she has for funding a research programme into(a) incidence, (b) treatment and (c) recovery rates from pre-senile dementia;

(2) what statistics she has on the social and financial background factors in the multi-factorial epidemiology of pre-senile dementia.

Dr. Mawhinney

We are conducting research into Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease which is a very rare form of pre-senile dementia.

Our major research effort is on the much larger numbers of those suffering from dementia in the over-65 age group.

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