It seeks to distinguish between dementia on the one hand, and potentially remediable cognitive impairment arising from delirium or mental disorder on the other.
"You have to put dementia on the differential diagnosis," he noted matter-of-factly.
The percentage of residents with dementia on these drugs is even higher.
Scientists also placed the issues of paralysis, environmentally friendly flight, food and water supply and dementia on the shortlist.
His experience of seeing the impact of dementia on a relative drove his interest in improving care and treatment.
Yet in "Mongo: Adventures in Trash," dementia on the scale, say, of the Collyer brothers, is only a minor note.
The impact of dementia on Monty Python star Terry Jones has been "painful to watch", his friend and fellow actor Michael Palin has said.
Even those who ought to know better – the caregivers who deal with dementia on a daily basis – often fail to remember that their patients forget.
And then comes a mysterious invitation to visit the elderly Alexander Pereira, a retired psychiatrist specialising in dementia, on his peninsula off the south of France.
The comments come as health and finance experts gather in London to discuss the burden of dementia on people around the world.
Not an obvious holiday read, as it is about the ineluctable progress of dementia on Suchet's beloved wife, Bonnie, but I couldn't put it down.
