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Therapeutic advances and risk factor management: our best chance to tackle dementia?
Author(s) -
Chong Terence WH,
Loi Samantha M,
Lautenschlager Nicola T,
Ames David
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/mja15.01122
Subject(s) - mental health , library science , gerontology , sociology , medicine , psychiatry , computer science
Increasing life expectancy has fuelled the growth in the prevalence of dementia. In 2015, there were an estimated 47 million people with dementia worldwide (including 343 000 in Australia), a number that will double every 20 years to 131 million by 2050 (900 000 in Australia).1 The global cost of dementia in 2015 was estimated to be US$818 billion.1 Low-to-middle income countries will experience the greatest rate of population ageing, and the disproportionate growth in dementia cases in these nations will be exacerbated by a relative lack of resources.