The narrative right here is largely apocalyptic. There is no efficient therapy, allow alone the hope of a remedy or a programme of prevention. Dementia lurks apparently in wait for all in higher age unopposed. The end phases of dementia are a real horror, as are the late phases of all terminal illnesses.
The hope we need to have for dementia, though, is the hope we’ve constantly had in the encounter of existence threatening and incurable ailment: that we may well dwell, and live nicely, for as long as achievable. In that vein, like dementia and the search for assistive and supportive digital technologies in the Longitude Prize is to be welcomed.
It is not a search for a remedy or even an effective treatment. It does not tackle the difficulty of continual below-funding in the location of dementia analysis – only an eigth the sources are invested yearly by Government in dementia study in contrast with the funding available for cancer. To me this £10 million fund, must it be won, would be an act of defiance, a statement that we choose to reject the nihilism that goes with the accepted narrative of dementia.
LONGITUDE PRIZE 2014
The Longitude Prize provides a £10 million prize fund for an innovation that will fix a single of the main difficulties of our time. And we can all assist to choose which of 6 themes the prize should concentrate on. The 6 problems are:
• To support men and women with dementia live independently for longer
• To aid avoid the rise of resistance to antibiotics
• To help us to be ready to fly without damaging the atmosphere
• To aid make sure everybody has nutritious, sustainable foods
• To support restore movement to people with paralysis
• To assist make certain everybody can have entry to secure and clean water
You can vote for the challenge you believe the Longitude Prize need to pursue at bbc.co.uk/horizon. Voting closes at seven.10pm on June 25 2014. The winning challenge will be announced on June 25 and will turn into the focus of the £10 million prize fund. The Longitude Committee will then finalise the criteria for how to win the prize, and from September tips can be submitted. The Longitude Prize will run for up to 5 years. http://www.longitudeprize.org/
Longitude Prize 2014: We must reject the apocalyptic, nihilistic narrative around dementia
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