With the gruesome estimation of over a million people with dementia by 2025, the Alzheimer’s Society informs that the proportion of people with dementia doubles for every 5 year age group! Causing nearly 60,000 deaths a year, the disease lead UK the financial cost of over £17 billion a year.
To add to the prevailing crisis, it has been recently found that about elderly people, suffering from dementia, are still driving, unaware of their possessing it. Canada is also facing a similar crisis.
The worst part is that doctors don’t have the driving skills’ assessment tools and the number of dementia patients on the road is simply growing! This is growing concern in Canada.
According to Ontario data, there will be about 270,000 drivers with varying degrees of dementia by 2027, in Canada alone.
As a measure against the gruesome aftereffects of ‘dementia drivers’ the governments and insurance companies need to pay more for regular mandatory road tests of drivers – and a Canadian medical research team is all set for the cause.
