![]() Korea is also establishing a comprehensive dementia management plan to reduce the burden on individuals and society and develop appropriate dementia management measures. For instance, the 2017–2025 Global Action Plan on the Public Health Response to Dementia aims to improve the lives of people with dementia and their caregivers while reducing the impact of dementia on communities and countries. Over the past decade, dementia policies worldwide have shifted from focusing on the negative consequences of disability to positive ones, including the perception that it is a manageable condition provided there is appropriate support. The national dementia management cost for people with dementia was KRW 17.3 trillion for the same year (13 billion USD), or approximately 0.9% of the gross domestic product this cost is expected to rise to approximately KRW 56.9 trillion (43 billion USD) by 2040. In 2020, approximately 365,000 people with dementia used long-term care insurance in Korea, and the total cost of care was approximately KRW 4.9 trillion (3.7 billion USD). Moreover, the social and economic burden caused by dementia is steadily rising. Further, South Korea (hereafter, Korea) has a high proportion of older people 65 years or older with dementia at approximately 830,000 (10.2%) of the 8.13 million older people. Approximately half of these expenses were related to informal caregivers (e.g., family members and close friends), who devote an average of five hours per day to care and supervision. Globally, dementia costed economies 1.3 trillion USD in 2019. ![]() Moreover, dementia has substantial social costs. As of 2023, approximately 55 million people have dementia worldwide, and this number is projected to increase by 10 million annually. Globally, dementia is a major cause of disability and dependency among older people and is the seventh most common cause of death. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver ( ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made.
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