Important research initiatives have been taken in the last few years under the Dementia Initiative – making Dementia National Health Priority including the establishment of three new Dementia Collaborative Research Centres and additional funding for dementia research grants.
However, it remains the case that dementia research is the poor cousin in medical research – and research on dementia care an even poorer cousin. In commissioning this report Alzheimer’s Australia has set out to demonstrate that on any objective basis, dementia research is under-funded. The impact of the dementia epidemic, whether on public health costs, social costs of families and carers, or the disability burden of the individual, suggests that Australia needs to make a more substantial investment for the future. The report recommends that funding for dementia research be set at 1.5% of the direct cost of dementia or $36 million per annum.
Australian Dementia Research: current status, future directions?
PDF file, 182 KB, June 2008
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