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The worldwide costs of dementia 2015 and comparisons with 2010

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© 2016 The AuthorsIntroduction In 2010, Alzheimer's Disease International presented estimates of the global cost of illness (COI) of dementia. Since then, new studies have been conducted, and the number of people with dementia has increased. Here, we present an update of the global cost estimates. Methods This is a societal, prevalence-based global COI study. Results The worldwide costs of dementia were estimated at United States (US) $818 billion in 2015, an increase of 35% since 2010; 86% of the costs occur in high-income countries. Costs of informal care and the direct costs of social care still contribute similar proportions of total costs, whereas the costs in the medical sector are much lower. The threshold of US $1 trillion will be crossed by 2018. Discussion Worldwide costs of dementia are enormous and still inequitably distributed. The increase in costs arises from increases in numbers of people with dementia and in increases in per person costs.


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Author(s): Wimo A, Guerchet M, Ali G-C, Wu Y-T, Prina AM, Winblad B, Jonsson L, Liu Z, Prince M

Publication type: Article

Publication status: Published

Journal: Alzheimer's and Dementia

Year: 2017

Volume: 13

Issue: 1

Pages: 1-7

Print publication date: 01/01/2017

Online publication date: 29/08/2016

Acceptance date: 02/04/2016

Date deposited: 21/05/2020

ISSN (print): 1552-5260

ISSN (electronic): 1552-5279

Publisher: Elsevier Inc.

URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jalz.2016.07.150

DOI: 10.1016/j.jalz.2016.07.150

PubMed id: 27583652


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Funding for this study came from Alzheimer Disease International
Matthew Prina is supported by the MRC (MR/K021907/1).
Swedish Brain Power, Sweden.
Swedish Ministry of Health and Social Affairs (S2000/1189/ST; S2000/1190/; S2000/1191/ST; S2000/1192/STannually prolonged),

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