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   Dementia is the biggest cause of death in women over 60   
      
   Women's dementia struggle: Over 60s twice as likely to get disease than breast   
   cancer   
      
      
   WOMEN with dementia are being sidelined despite suffering the effects of the   
   condition more than men.   
      
   Published: 00:01, Sun, Mar 8, 2015 By: JAYMI MCCANN   
      
      
   It is the biggest cause of death in women and those over 60 are twice as   
   likely to get the disease as to get breast cancer.   
      
   Report A Marginalised Majority will be launched today by Alzheimer's Research   
   UK to mark International Women's Day and the conclusion of the Women of the   
   World Festival.   
      
   It highlights that out of the 850,000 people in Britain who have the disease,   
   500,000 are women, while it also points out that Alzheimer's affects more   
   women than breast cancer among the over-60s.   
      
   The charity hopes that the progress seen with increased cancer investment over   
   the years will be an incentive to increase support for dementia research.   
      
   Hilary Evans, of Alzheimer's Research UK, said: "In recent decades we've seen   
   increased investment in areas like cancer have a real impact.   
      
   "We need to emulate that success for dementia."   
      
   Author Valerie Blumenthal, 66, suffers from a rare form of the disease, called   
   posterior cortical atrophy, and will talk at today's report launch.   
      
   She adds that Alzheimer's has not had the support it needs because it is not   
   "glamorous".   
      
   Alzheimer's had a very seedy image   
      
   Valerie Blumenthal   
   She said: "I had breast cancer as well and it is amazing what they can do   
   these days.   
      
   "Alzheimer's had a very seedy image.   
      
   "It was just old people made to look decrepit.   
      
   "Lost and forgotten people.   
      
   "It was nothing glamorous.   
      
   "There is more interest now though.   
      
   "People didn't realise how people of all ages could be affected.   
      
   "We were all aware of it but the old are forgotten.   
      
   "This is why I talk about my experiences, to raise awareness."   
      
   Alzheimer's Research UK is hoping that Julianne Moore's film Still Alice,   
   released in UK cinemas on Friday, will also raise awareness of Alzheimer's and   
   show how young women are affected by the disease.   
      
   The movie is about a female professor's diagnosis of early-onset Alzheimer's.   
      
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   http://www.express.co.uk/life-style/health/562516/Women-dementia   
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