The Alzheimer’s Society has released new data on the rates of dementia diagnosis in the UK. It shows wide variation between areas with, for example, 31.6 percent of people with dementia being diagnosed in the East Riding of Yorkshire and 75.4 percent in Islington.
The proportion of people with dementia who have a formal diagnosis is now 46 percent, compared with 43 percent in 2011. Alzheimer’s Society estimates that there are 428,000 people in the UK who are living with dementia but haven’t been diagnosed.