Covid-19: IUAD launches emergency appeal

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Insurance Cares: Group said social isolation is an “enormous threat” to the 700,000 people over 70 living with dementia.

Insurance United Against Dementia (IUAD) has launched an emergency fundraising appeal amid the Covid-19 outbreak.

IUAD said that social isolation practices triggered by the ongoing pandemic are an “enormous threat” to people living with dementia.

People over 70 have been advised to isolate for 12 weeks as a precautionary measure, and IUAD said that around 700,000 people in this age group are living with dementia.

The group encouraged members of the insurance industry to donate to the

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