{"id":778028,"date":"2026-09-21T17:54:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T17:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/778028\/"},"modified":"2026-09-21T17:54:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T17:54:10","slug":"manchester-brain-health-clinic-aims-to-transform-dementia-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/778028\/","title":{"rendered":"Manchester brain health clinic aims to ‘transform’ dementia care"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dementia is associated with an ongoing decline of brain functioning.<\/p>\n

Symptoms can include memory loss, slower thinking speed, and lower levels of understanding, judgement and mood, according to the NHS, external<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Alzheimer’s disease is a type of dementia which, together with vascular dementia, makes up the majority of cases.<\/p>\n

According to Alzheimer’s Society, about one million people are living with dementia in the UK.<\/p>\n

On average, diagnosis typically takes three-and-a-half years from the first symptoms being displayed.<\/p>\n

The charity said the new Manchester clinic was set to transform this process.<\/p>\n

“What we are looking to do is to bring that right forward so people in Manchester are referred into a specialist team at the earlier symptoms – ensuring they get an accurate diagnosis,” said Alzheimer’s Society dementia support services director Chris Larkin.<\/p>\n

“They’ll understand what’s happening and then they’ll get support to reduce their risks and also to live as well as possible with the diagnosis.”<\/p>\n

The clinic will use MRI scans, lumbar punctures, heart health checks and behavioural assessments to deliver earlier and accurate diagnoses before putting together personalised treatment plans.<\/p>\n

Patients will be identified through existing memory assessment services and referred directly, the charity said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dementia is associated with an ongoing decline of brain functioning. Symptoms can include memory loss, slower thinking speed,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":778029,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[59,102,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-778028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-gb","tag-health","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=778028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778028\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/778029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=778028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=778028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=778028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}