It's time for us all to talk about the impact of dementia

If dementia were a place, if it were a country, it would boast the world’s 15th-largest economy. The World Health Organization and Alzheimer’s Disease International (ADI) put global dementia costs at $1.3 trillion a year, a number that’s predicted to rise to $2.8trn by the end of the decade. That makes dementia bigger than Mexico and a significantly larger economy than the Netherlands, Turkey or Switzerland.