More than 35 million people worldwide had dementia in 2010, when annual costs were estimated at USD 604 billion; the … number of people with dementia is expected to exceed 115 million by 2050. Alzheimer’s disease is today considered the … Dementia" which looked at ways to harness developments in life sciences and information technologies to accelerate innovation …

The large and growing human and financial cost of dementia provides an imperative for policy action. It is already the … these costs will grow. There is no cure or effective treatment for dementia, and too often people do not get appropriate … progress on dementia has stalled and investment is just a fraction of what it is for other diseases of similar importance and …

, undertook a project on “Healthy Ageing and Biomedical Innovation for Dementia and Alzheimer’s disease”. The project was …