THE national charity Age Scotland has called for increased care and support for people living with dementia, for whom Scotland’s new National Care Service will be “crucial”.
This follows this week’s release of figures from the National Records of Scotland showing 6046 deaths throughout the country in 2021 were caused by Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias. While this is a decrease of 5% since 2020, it is nevertheless twice as high as in 2020, making dementia one of the leading causes of death in Scotland, with a mortality rate similar to coronary heart disease.
