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Got to say @Brunneria darling (nice outfit by the way!), I thought the same thing - why does it seem that every other research programme or outreach activity or whatever seems to be targeted at the young? Now I have nothing against the young - many of my friends used to be young - but I do wonder if the allocation of funding is properly balanced? Are young people really worth more than us mature types?
Then I remembered that NICE weights the net benefit of almost every treatment or intervention by multiplying it by the expected remaining life span of the person treated. So if we all live to 80, a 10 year old with 70 years to live is 7 times more "benefit" to treat than a 70 year old with ten years to live. Compared to a 20 year old, a 40 year old is "worth" two thirds and a 60 year old only one third. In my case I'm worth about 14.5%. Strangely that's exactly the same as the alcohol content of my massive bottle of DRINK!
Well that would make sense Spiker going by what you've said about NICE and how funding is allocated.
I was diagnosed aged 18, it was like my world fell in and only wished there was more support around then as there is today, I cannot begin to imagine how it must feel to be diagnosed much younger than I was and have to deal all the problems of schooling and such like, therefore I do think that money spent is worthy to be spent on the younger generation rather than the older.
To the OP, as Tony Blair said in one of his campaign speeches, it's EDUCATION EDUCATION EDUCATION that is missing.