Cruel tabloid headlines raise hopes of Alzheimer’s cure

– Jo Bennett, Stockport

“And of course we have the wonderful Daily Express that claims to have found the cure and, of course, I knew that wasn’t the case when I saw the news headlines the other night but of course, you have to follow it up, just in case there was such a chance.

“They put these great big, wonderful tabloid headlines but when you come to read it, it’s gobshite really, they haven’t got a clue what’s going on and I feel sorry for people who have just been diagnosed, they see these great big headlines [which] those of us who have lived with it for a while know to ignore. I think they are really cruel, the people [newspapers] who think up these [headlines], they have no idea that people are going to be bitterly disappointed when they read it.”