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You and Yours: Dementia Care Costs, Donating Old Clothes, Private Electric Car Buyers

Dementia Care Costs, Donating Old Clothes, Private Electric Car Buyers

BBC Radio 4 - You and Yours, Dementia Care Costs, Donating Old Clothes, Private Electric Car Buyers

Soaring dementia care costs reach £42 billion in UK, and families bear the brunt.

Alzheimer’s Society has published new research that reveals the soaring cost of dementia in the UK has now reached a staggering £42 billion per year.

For Dementia Action Week we will be talking with Alzheimer’s Society who has published new research that reveals the soaring cost of dementia in the UK has now reached a staggering £42 billion per year.
It revealed that people living with dementia and their families are shouldering 63% of all dementia costs and that as the disease progresses, total costs increase significantly, rising from £29,000 per year for mild dementia to £81,000 for severe dementia.
Paul is a full time carer for his wife Sandra, who was diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer’s in June 2021. Since then Paul has had to give up work and turn to benefits to cover their living expenses and care costs. However, the amount of support they get barely cover this and the worry has meant they have had to turn to family and draw on his pension early to survive. 
We will hear from Paul, and Alzheimer’s Society who are calling on the Government to take action and make dementia care a priority.

What do you do with your old clothes when they are no longer fit to wear? Dump it in the bin? Take it to the recycling centre? Maybe you upcycle it and make other things? 
Well more than 700,000 tons of textiles go into the household waste each year, and we will be hearing about one scheme trying to combat that, and also sharing some advice on what you can do with your old textiles. 

And, think of buying an electric car? 
Even though there are reports of sales of EVs going up, that growth is in the companies buying for their fleets, the number of private buyers has fallen by more than a fifth. So what’s putting people off? 
We’ll be speaking to one potential EV buyer about what’s stopping them making the move to electric, and also to the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders to ask what needs to happen to see those figures turn around.

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