Dementia across Australia

Without a significant medical breakthrough, the number of Australians with dementia is expected to soar from an estimated 267,000 in 2011 to almost one million people by 2050. Deloitte Access Economics was commissioned by Alzheimer’s Australia to provide updated dementia prevalence estimates and projections for Australia. Specifically, this report estimates the number of people with dementia in Australia in 2011, and predicts the number of people who will be living with dementia in Australia in the future, from 2012 until 2050. The report is set out as follows: • Chapter 1 reviews academic research and other relevant reports on dementia prevalence to determine a basis for estimating current dementia prevalence rates in Australia. These estimates draw upon studies of dementia prevalence from America and Europe, as well as several large Australian studies that have collected information on possible or probable dementia. • Chapter 2 presents dementia prevalence projections from 2011 to 2050, nationally, across states and territories, and across each of the 150 electoral divisions of the federal government