Susan Mitchell (Alzheimer’s Research UK) talks about the conclusions that can be drawn from our recent report 'Growing Older, Better' for policy implementation and wider public health

Transcript:

My name is Susan Mitchell. I am Policy Manager of Alzheimer’s Research UK – one of the UK’s dementia research charities.
I think that there are several key findings that come out of this report that are really relevant for the policy implementation and wider public health. At the widest level, I think that there is a point around the real gap between the insight that’s developed from physiology and physiological research and how that’s actually transferred into policy and policy implementation.

That chimes with some of the work that we’ve done around dementia risk reduction. We know for example that only 34% of people who’ve been poled think that they can do anything to reduce their risk of developing dementia. And yet, we estimate that approximately a third of cases of dementia may well be avoidable through health and lifestyle factors.

Another area that I think we can conclude from this insight work is that we need a range and diversity of actions going forward to actually implement and change and improve healthy ageing. There is obviously that public messaging – individual responsibility but I think we also see the importance of The Government actually taking action, and we can see that there’s a whole range of physiological research that could help engage and motivate policy makers to make some genuine changes.

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