Claim: Dementia and Alzheimer's disease are now the leading causes of death.
Fact-check: The biggest cause of death depends on how you count them - Full Fact
Verdict: it depends how you categorise illnesses. more people died of dementia and alzheimer's disease than any other single cause in 2015 but, as a group, cancers were the most common cause of deaths.
Organisation: Full Fact
Author: Sinéad Boultwood
Date published: 2016-10-16T00:00:00