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Australian dementia research: current status, future directions report


Alzheimer’s

Australia
has commissioned this report to demonstrate that on any objective basis, dementia research is under-funded. 

 

It claims that current investment over the last six years in dementia research was about $13 million, 0.6% of the total direct costs of the disease.

 

By 2030, the total cost to the health care system of dementia is projected to rise to $8.2 billion and the number of people with dementia to double to more than 460,000.  

 

The impact of the dementia epidemic, whether on public health costs, social costs of families and carers, or the disability burden of the individual, suggests that Australia needs to make a more substantial investment for the future.

The report recommends that funding for dementia research be set at 1.5% of the direct cost of dementia or $36 million per annum.

The report, A significant saving to the direct cost of dementia,  was prepared by the Dementia Collaborative Research Centre at the University of NSW.

 


Visit:

www.alzheimers.org.au/content.cfm?infopageid=4951

 

 

 

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