The worldwide prevalence of dementia will increase by 85% over the next 20 years and more than triple by the year 2050, according to a report from an international federation of Alzheimer organizations.
The current dementia population of 35.6 million people will increase to 65.7 million by 2020 and to 115.4 million by 2050, authors of World Alzheimer Report 2010: The Global Economic Impact of Dementia estimated. Low- and middle-income countries, where about two-thirds of people with dementia live now, will have the largest increases in the coming decades.
Dementia-related costs, currently estimated at $600 billion, will increase by 85% by 2030, a figure based solely on the predicted growth of the worldwide dementia population./.../
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