Canada does a lot of work with the provinces for cancer. There's a cancer partnership. I don't see any reason we can't do the same thing for dementia.
I want to quote from Mimi at the Alzheimer Society of Canada. She's talking about dementia:It's coming upon us fast and furious....As baby boomers age, age is one of the risk factors [and] we're seeing a major increase in people with disease at a younger age. Early on-set is absolutely devastating to a family when you think of a 40-year-old getting the disease.
Caregivers are working an estimated roughly 444 million unpaid hours per year. That's a loss of income of $11 billion per year. That's a lot of money.