The association Alzheimer’s Disease International (ADI), which brings together 73 associations worldwide, said in the report that the number of patients expected to triple by 2050 (115.4 million).

Alzheimer and other dementias will represent a growing cost to society than 1% of global GDP in 2010, $ 604 billion and the equivalent of the 18th world economy, the report adds.

Experts from King’s College London and the Karolinska Institutet (Sweden) who compiled the latest data for this report call for an international effort to the extent of the disease.

Should be multiplied by 15 financial research effort to reach a funding comparable to that for cardiovascular disease – and by 30 to reach parity with the effort for cancer.

About 0.5% of world population is now affected by some form of dementia, including Alzheimer’s is the most common. The disease, which affects memory and behavior, is incurable and highly debilitating. It is strongly linked to aging, since the risk of developing the disease doubles every 5 years from 65 and reached 50% at the age of 85.

According to the association, governments must make Alzheimer’s a priority in their health policies. Some countries have already implemented plans “Alzheimer’s,” the report said, citing France, Australia and England.

Globally, Alzheimer’s should be a priority for the World Health Organization (WHO) and be on the agenda of the G8 and G20.

For Dr. Daisy Acosta, president of ADI, “Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias are the most important medical and social crisis of the 21st century and governments are” woefully prepared to face social and economic disruption that it causes .

Alzheimer’s affects 860,000 people in France, where a plan launched in February 2008 will allocate a budget of 1.6 billion euros by 2012. President Nicolas Sarkozy announced last Friday the generalization of 2011 houses for the reception of patients, involving all the professionals of the disease.

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