ABC Online | Alzheimer's Australia calls for national dementia strategy as disease set to cost $18b by 2025 ABC Online Dementia is set to cost Australia an estimated $18 billion a year by 2025 and Alzheimer's Australia is calling for a national strategy to combat the disease. A new report, The Economic Cost of Dementia in Australia 2016-2056, was conducted by the ... New dementia figures reveal 'staggering' multibillion-dollar cost |