Report by the Spanish Foundation of the Brain on the social impact of Alzheimer disease and other types of dementia (Neurologia, 2017, Dec, Epub)

The economic impact of dementia is huge and difficult to evaluate due to the combination of direct and indirect costs. Around 80% of all patients with dementia are cared for by their families, which cover a mean of 87% of the total economic cost, resulting in considerable economic and health burden on caregivers and loss of quality of life.

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