Urgent injection of funds needed to stave off dementia crisis

October 6, 2026 — 2:00am

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Australia is incubating a dementia timebomb. According to Australian Institute of Health and Welfare forecasts, the number of people living with the disease will more than double to one million by 2061, which would work out to 1 in 40 people. The cumulative economic cost would surpass $1 trillion. It is already our leading cause of death.

Yet, as today’s feature on dementia breakthroughs reveals, there’s reason to be optimistic, with the approval of the world’s first drug treatments shown to modify Alzheimer’s disease and new blood tests that can detect key changes decades before symptoms arrive. This progress is momentous and has sparked renewed vigour and........

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