Meeting Nottingham's African Caribbean dementia service
David Cameron has agreed to double spending on dementia as new figures reveal the global number of sufferers is expected to treble by 2050. It's estimated that 25,000 people from Britain's ethnic minority communities are living with the disease. But despite that number rising, there's not enough being done to properly understand their needs, according to a new report by the Race Equality Foundation. 大象传媒 Radio Nottingham鈥檚 Reya El-Salahi has been finding out about Nottingham's only dementia service for African and Caribbean communities. In this extract she meets care workers, Barbara Collins and Gary Marsh from the Marcus Garvey Day Centre.
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