"This is a time bomb." These words could refer to any number of perilous global issues currently grabbing headlines. We could be talking about global warming, China's economic downturn, fossil fuels, Ebola or terrorism – but we're not. These are the words used by Gill Morgan, chair of NHS Providers, the UK's National Health Service trade association for acute, ambulance, community and mental health services, to describe Alzheimer's disease.
Alzheimer's disease, an irreversible, progressive neurodegenerative disease, is the most common cause of dementia among the elderly, accounting for between...