Too Young for Dementia? 6 Warning Signs for People Under 65
The number of younger people with dementia is rising fast. But what are the red flags and how can you protect yourself?
Most of us try not to think about dementia in our younger years. We imagine it as something that, if it must strike us, will only rear its head decades down the line when we’re already elderly and frail.
But early onset dementia, defined as dementia with symptoms that start when a sufferer is younger than 65, is on the rise. The number of people living with it in Britain has increased by 69 per cent in the past 10 years. It’s still a relatively rare phenomenon, accounting for around 7 per cent of all cases, whereas one in 11 over-65s in Britain lives with the disease. Yet as of 2022, nearly 80,000 under-65s in this country have been diagnosed with dementia.
