NextBillion - An Initiative of the William Davidson Institute at the University of Michigan

Thursday, December 5, 2013

The Policy Brief entitled ’The Global Impact of Dementia 2013-2050’ reports a staggering 17% increase in global estimates of people living with dementia, compared to the original ADI estimates in the 2009 World Alzheimer’s Report.

Although high income countries like all those in G8 have borne the brunt of the dementia epidemic, the disease is a global phenomenon. In the next few decades the global burden of the disease will shift inexorably to low and middle income countries with 71% of those with dementia living in lower and middle-income countries by 2050.