Original title: The worldwide costs of dementia 2015 and comparisons with 2010
The researchers estimated the worldwide costs of dementia in 2015 and compared them with 2010. They counted costs across society, including care provided without pay and paid social care. The estimate was US $818 billion, 35% higher than in 2010. Most costs were in high-income countries, and the rise came from both more people with dementia and higher costs per person.
Imagine a family adding up what it takes to care for someone at home. The hardest part is that some costs show up as bills, while other care takes time and is unpaid. In this paper, adding up those different kinds of care across countries gives an estimate of dementia's worldwide costs, and shows where those costs fall.
These estimates show how the financial burden of dementia is distributed across countries and across types of care. They can help governments and care systems see that informal and social care make up a large share of the costs, while medical costs are much lower.
The abstract reports global cost estimates and their distribution, but does not describe the underlying data sources, how estimates were calculated, or how uncertainty was handled. It also does not establish the costs for individual countries or explain what policies would reduce them.
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The worldwide costs of dementia 2015 and comparisons with 2010 — Anders B. Wimo, Maëlenn Guerchet, Gemma‐Claire Ali et al. — Alzheimer s & Dementia — doi:10.1016/j.jalz.2016.07.150
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