Money Box Live: Dementia and Money
Money Box
BBC
4.2 • 825 Ratings
🗓️ 1 March 2023
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
It’s estimated that more than 900,000 people in the UK have dementia but that’s a number that's on the rise.
It’s a diagnosis that raises a lot of questions, from the care that might be needed to the impact on family members, and of course there are worries about how best to manage finances as the illness progresses.
This podcast is for everyone, but especially anyone who has concerns about how to protect their financial future if they lose the ability to manage their own affairs. It’s also for anyone who wants to know how they can best provide support for the people they love.
To answer your questions, the experts in this podcast are, Victoria Lyons from the charity Dementia UK and Gary Rycroft a solicitor in private practice.
Presenter: Felicity Hannah Producer: Amber Mehmood Editor: Clare Worden
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| 0:00.0 | On a winter's night in 1974, a crime took place that would obsess the nation. |
| 0:07.0 | It was an extraordinary news story. |
| 0:09.0 | The story of an aristocrat, Lord Lucan, who's said to have killed the family Nanny, |
| 0:14.0 | mistaking her for his wife, then somehow just disappeared. |
| 0:18.0 | One of the great mysteries in English criminal history. We're still looking for Lucan. |
| 0:21.6 | It's honestly one of the most powerful stories of my lifetime. |
| 0:25.6 | I'm Alex Fondunzelman. |
| 0:26.6 | This is The Lucan Obsession. |
| 0:28.6 | Listen on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:30.6 | BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:36.6 | Welcome to the podcast of Moneybox Live, the program about your money. |
| 0:40.3 | It's estimated that more than 900,000 people in the UK have dementia, but that's a number that's on the rise. |
| 0:47.3 | Some projections are that by 2025, there'll be more than a million people directly affected by the illness. |
| 0:53.3 | It's a diagnosis that raises a lot |
| 0:55.4 | of questions, from the care that might be needed to the impact on family members. And then, of |
| 1:00.4 | course, there are worries about how best to manage finances as the illness progresses. Today's |
| 1:05.7 | podcast is for everyone, but especially anyone who has concerns about how to protect their financial future |
| 1:11.5 | if they lose the ability to manage their own affairs. It's also for anyone who wants to know |
| 1:16.2 | how they can best provide support for the people they love. But now we've got experts ready |
| 1:21.3 | to answer your questions. Before we speak to them, it's important to hear from someone who's |
| 1:25.1 | directly affected. Gina was 58 when she was diagnosed with vascular dementia |
| 1:30.3 | and she's been working with the Alzheimer's Society to share her experience. |
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