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Experts are warning that dementia is the greatest health and social crisis of the century as its global financial burden continues to escalate.
The World Alzheimer Report says dementia costs will amount to more than 1% of the world’s gross domestic product this year at $604bn (£388bn).
To put this massive sum into context, if dementia were a country it would be the world’s 18th largest economy. Link to read article
Source: BBC
World Alzheimer Report 2010
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