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Pratchett asks for Tory help
Bestselling novelist Terry Pratchett won a standing ovation at the Tory conference when he made a moving plea for more to be done to combat the rising toll from Alzheimer's disease, reports the Guardian.
Pratchett, author of the Discworld series of books, was recently diagnosed with an early-onset form of the disease.
Warning that the country was facing a "tsunami" of dementia suffering, Pratchett said that the load on the NHS and society as a whole could become "unbearable".
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