Health-care system needs to prepare for what may be coming, society CEO says
Sep 06, 2022
A new study from the Alzheimer’s Society of Canada predicts that the number of people in Canada living with dementia will triple over the next 30 years.
The study used data from Statistics Canada to create representations of people living in Canada and looked at how many of those people would develop dementia over time in what is called a “microsimulation.”
In 2020, more than 597,000 Canadians were living with dementia; by 2050, that number is expected to reach 1.7 million.
“As Canada’s baby boomer generation continues to age, the number of people in Canada living with dementia will rise significantly,” report author Dr. Joshua Armstrong said in a news release.
Statistics Canada data from earlier this year shows the number of people age 65 and older is increasing; there are seven million Canadians in that age category, and they make up about 19 per cent of the total population — up from 16.9 per cent since the last census five years prior.
Read more: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/dementia-canada-triple-2050-1.6574268