Stopping cognitive decline in patients with late-life depression: a new front in the fight against dementia

Dementia looms as a public health crisis. The challenge is to bend the curve before the aging “tsunami” hits. According to the Alzheimer's Association, we face 8.2 million cases of dementia in the US in 2030. Complete prevention may be elusive in the near-future, but even slowing down the decline could have a huge benefit: if discovered and disseminated by 2025, such an intervention coul d reduce these cases by 30% to 5.8 million.1 The projected cost-savings of such an intervention are $83B in 2030 – rising to $367B in annual savings by 2050.
Source: The American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry - Category: Geriatrics Authors: Source Type: research