Is there any information that compares the Rising Tide study to the economic burden of diabetes, heart and stroke or cancer?
Even though this type of modeling work has been conducted to a limited extent in the literature, such a broad and multidisciplinary analysis involving many subject matter experts has not been done before in Canada. Other charities have not gone through the same process making the Alzheimer Society a leader in this area. Statistics Canada has some data around years of disability caused by certain neurological diseases which we plan to collect.
