
Alzheimer’s: An issue for everyone
Updated: Feb 21, 2019

When I started working at Jubilee Hall back in 2009 I was aware that it was not a typical commercial gym, where the focus can be constantly on selling membership and related services to clients.
During my early journey as a personal trainer I also met and trained a lot of people, and I can now look back and see how that period changed my perception of my work fundamentally and in a good way.
For example, I learned early on that if you want to be successful as a personal trainer you need to have an natural interest in people, and by which I mean all kinds of people and not just the young.
In that spirit I would like to use the blog this week to underline how important an understanding of Alzheimer's disease is to our long-term health and vitality, even if we are in our younger years.
Here are some statistic so as to understand the impact of the disease on our society:
By 2015 there will be 850,000 people living with dementia in the UK.
There are today 40,000 younger people already living with dementia in the UK.
There are 25,000 people living with dementia from black and minority ethnic groups in the UK.
There will be 1 million people with dementia in the UK by 2025.
Two thirds of people living with dementia are women.
The proportion of people with dementia doubles for every five-year age group.
One in six people aged 80 and over have dementia.
60,000 deaths a year are directly attributable to dementia.