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Apr 2022
30m 42s

Dementia: Could lessons from Covid help ...

THE TIMES
About this episode

Just before the pandemic, the government promised a 'dementia moonshot' to blast us towards a dementia cure. What happened to it?

Today: former prime minister David Cameron and Sunday Times science editor Ben Spencer on Britain’s fastest growing disease, dementia.

This podcast was brought to you thanks to the support of readers of The Times and The Sunday Times. Subscribe today and get one month free at: thetimes.co.uk/storiesofourtimes.

Guests:

- Ben Spencer, science editor, The Sunday Times.

- David Cameron, former UK prime minister and president of Alzheimer's Research UK.

- Willy Gilder, former BBC radio reporter, living with Alzheimer’s disease.

Clips: BBC, Channel 4 News, Sky News, ABC News, WRTV.



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