Breaking down the costs of dementia

There is no question: if dementia doesn’t already affect you, it will some day. You could become a patient or a caregiver — or a taxpayer increasingly burdened by dementia’s spiralling costs. It is a growing public health crisis that will overwhelm countries like Canada if we are not prepared.

SOURCES: Alzheimer Society of Canada, Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Statistics Canada, Canadian Medical Association, Health Quality Ontario, Annals of Internal Medicine, World Alzheimer Report 2015, World Bank, World Health Organization; Lan