Alzheimer’s Notes

Britain Restricts Some Drugs for Alzheimer’s Treatment

by Mary Emma Allen on February 27th, 2007

Because the British government has decided some drugs used for Alzheimer’s (in some cases delaying the symptoms) are not cost effective, they’ve issued restrictions on them.  The Alzheimer’s Society is challenging this decision legally.  Today, the Daily Mail newspaper launched a campaign to raise funds to aid the Alzheimer’s Society in this campaign.

In another article in the Daily Mail, writer Rosie Boycott relates, “What price my father’s dignity?” ,her father’s battle with Alzheimer’s and tells how Aricept, one of the drugs now restricted, helped her father continue a more normal life for about a year longer.  Ms. Boycott also tells a story of a father’s struggle with Alzheimer’s that other caregivers can relate to.

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