{"id":1720,"date":"2025-05-19T16:01:21","date_gmt":"2025-05-19T15:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ourdorset.org.uk\/diis\/?p=1720"},"modified":"2025-05-27T14:49:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-27T13:49:09","slug":"dementia-awareness-week-19-25-may-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ourdorset.org.uk\/diis\/dementia-awareness-week-19-25-may-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Dementia Awareness Week 19-25 May 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><b>This year&#8217;s theme for Dementia Action Week is raising awareness of the importance of early diagnosis.<\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><b>There are currently estimated to be 982,000 people with dementia in the UK, this is expected to increase to 1.4 million by 2040.<\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><b>It is estimated that 1 in 3 people in the UK living with dementia do not have a diagnosis.<\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">In Dorset we have over <b>8,500<\/b> people on the Dementia register with just under <b>2.5% <\/b>of these recorded as early onset dementia.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Around <b>5,300 <\/b>of those with a recorded diagnosis are female, compared to <b>3,250<\/b> male.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><b>80% <\/b>of those with a recorded diagnosis have <b>3 <\/b>or more long term conditions.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">To find out more about dementia visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alzheimers.org.uk\/get-involved\/dementia-action-week\">Dementia Action Week | Alzheimer&#8217;s Society<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year&#8217;s theme for Dementia Action Week is raising awareness of the importance of early diagnosis. There are currently estimated  &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":1759,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourdorset.org.uk\/diis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourdorset.org.uk\/diis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourdorset.org.uk\/diis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourdorset.org.uk\/diis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourdorset.org.uk\/diis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1720"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ourdorset.org.uk\/diis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1722,"href":"https:\/\/ourdorset.org.uk\/diis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1720\/revisions\/1722"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourdorset.org.uk\/diis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourdorset.org.uk\/diis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourdorset.org.uk\/diis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourdorset.org.uk\/diis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}