APPENDIX 19
Supplementary memorandum submitted by
the Medical Research Council
RESEARCH ON HEALTHY AGEING AND AGE-RELATED
DISEASE
1. OVERVIEW OF
SPEND IN
1998-99
| | Basic/Descriptive Research
| Treatment, Prevention and Health Services Research
|
Ageing
(research other than Link, cancers and most heart disease research)
| £8.5 million pa |
£8 million pa |
| LINK | £2 million pa
|
| Cancer | £30 million pa
|
| Cardiovascular disease | £12 million pa
|
| Total (excluding overlaps) | £58 million pa
|
2. NEW AWARDS
ON AGEING
SINCE 1998-99
(Total value over three to five years, excluding cancer and
most heart disease)
| | Basic/Descriptive
| Treatment/Prevention
|
| | £6 million
| £6.5 million |
| Total | £12.5 million
|
3. RESEARCH OBJECTIVES
AND AREAS
IN 1998-99
(£ millions spent during 1998-99)
| | Cognition
| Mobility and incontinence
| General health | Cardiovascular problems of old age
| Total |
| Treatment Prevention and Health Services |
2.1 | 2.0
| 2.0 | 0.9
| 8 |
| Basic/Descriptive Research | 4.3
| 0.6 | 2.2
| 1.3 | 8.5
|
Definitions
Cognition: research in Alzheimer's disease, general
age related cognitive problems and related rehabilition, and age-related
vision and hearing problems.
Mobility and incontinence: research into musculoskeletal
problems, osteoporosis, osteoarthritis, Parkinson's disease, incontinence
and other problems of co-ordination.
General health: research that cuts across several
health areas, such as work on the value of active screening of
elderly people; effectiveness of health services; and social,
dietary and lifestyle factors linked to general good healh, or
more than one illness, in old age.
Cardiovascular problems of old age: research into
congestive heart failure, venous-leg ulcers, and other circulatory
problems mainly associated with old age.
March 2000
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