Cognitive Screening at the Population Level: The Italian Health Examination Survey, 2008-2012

In 2011, 35.6 million people worldwide were living with dementia.1 This number will more than triple by 2050.1 Among noncommunicable diseases, dementia accounts for 11.9% of years lived with disability,2 and the annual global cost of either formal or informal care has been more than US$600 billion in 2010, with alarming, probably unsustainable, increases expected in the near future.3 Given this, the World Health Organization (WHO) has set dementia as a major public health priority.4 On December 7, 2017, the WHO has launched the web-based platform Global Dementia Observatory, with the aim to monitor the presence of national policy and plans for surveillance and care of dementia either within countries or globally.
Source: Journal of the American Medical Directors Association - Category: Health Management Authors: Tags: Letter to the Editor Source Type: research