World Alzheimer Report 2010 - Statistics for Alzheimer's Disease

World Alzheimer Report 2010

The World Alzheimer Report 2010 provides the clearest, most comprehensive global picture yet of the economic impact of Alzheimer's disease and dementia.

The report includes an estimate of the worldwide cost of dementia, including direct medical costs, direct non-medical costs and costs of informal (family) care. The estimates are broken down by world region and include analysis of the differences between low and high income countries. The report also contains important policy recommendations and makes clear to key decision-makers that doing nothing is not an option.

* World Alzheimer Report 2010 - Executive Summary (PDF, 12 pages, 690KB)
* World Alzheimer Report 2010 (PDF, 56 pages, 1302KB)

* News release
* 2010 Executive Summary - Traditional Chinese
* 2010 Executive Summary - Bulgarian

The World Alzheimer Report 2010 is designed to build on the findings of the World Alzheimer Report 2009.

World Alzheimer Report 2009

The World Alzheimer Report 2009 presents the most comprehensive global prevalence study of dementia to date and looks at levels of mortality, disability, strain on carers and dependency. The report also offers examples of good national dementia plans and information on health service responses. Importantly, the report also includes eight recommendations that will provide a global framework for action on dementia.

* World Alzheimer Report 2009 - Executive Summary (PDF, 24 pages, 746KB)
* World Alzheimer Report 2009 (PDF, 96 pages, 1917KB)

* 2009 Executive Summary - German (PDF, 761KB)
* 2009 Executive Summary - Spanish (PDF, 755KB)
* 2009 Executive Summary - French (PDF, 758KB)
* 2009 Executive Summary - Japanese (PDF, 3006KB)
* 2009 Executive Summary - Portuguese (PDF, 767KB)

* Appendix 1 (List of Global Burden of Disease regions) (PDF, 3 pages, 25KB)
* Appendix 5 (List of studies included in and excluded from meta-analysis) (PDF, 17 pages, 143KB)