A report submitted today informed that the amount of expenses pertaining to dementia for the whole world is set to reach $604 billion for the year, which is over 1% of the international GDP output, and that number is only going to swell, since the number of patients would triple by 2050.

An Alzheimer's Disease International (ADI) report, in order to depict the level of trouble that is waiting to strike, said that the costs of taking care for an anticipated 35.6 million individuals suffering from Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia would be a gigantic one.

“World Governments are woefully unprepared for the social and economic disruptions this disease will cause”, said Daisy Acosta, ADI's Chairman.

Co-authors of the report, Martin Prince of Britain's King's College London Institute of Psychiatry and Anders Wimo of Sweden's Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, fused the highly updated information on dementia occurrence with additional research on care with data from nations like India, China, etc.

The most common form of dementia is Alzheimer’s, which is an all-encompassing brain wasting disease that has negative impact upon behavior, thinking, memory and the capability of doing everyday activities.

Harry Johns, President of the Chicago-based Alzheimer's Association, said that in future a striking increase in the Alzheimer’s instance will be seen.