Vancouver Sun | National dementia strategy urgently needed Vancouver Sun Almost every day we are bombarded by new stories about the growing epidemic of dementia. Currently there are 747,000 Canadians living with Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia. This number is expected to increase to 1.4 million by 2031. On eve of meeting, health ministers urged to make dementia top priority Ambrose and provincial ministers to discuss array of health-care issues |