Some 28 million suffer world wide at a direct care cost of $156 billion annually reports a team of Swedish scientists in Worldwide Alzheimer'[s Care Carries Staggering Costs. This does not include the indirect costs of the time and effort expended by friends, family and neighbors to care for the sufferer.
In the US, caring for some 3 million Alzheimer patients costs about $50 billion/year.
"This is the most costly disease for our society," said study lead author Dr. Bengt Winblad, chief physician at the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm and the Karolinska University Hospital in Huddinge. "It's more costly than both cardiovascular disease and cancer put together."
Posted by Jill Fallon at June 23, 2005 1:28 PM | Permalink