As benefit leaders continue to explore innovative ways to invest in employee wellness, it might be high time they turn their attention toward brain health.
The Milken Institute Future of Aging estimates that dementia — defined as a group of symptoms affecting memory, social abilities and other cognitive functions — will impact one in five older adults by 2060. Dementia care already costs U.S. healthcare $360 billion each year, excluding the labor for unpaid caregivers. To make matters worse, long COVID, which already affects 20 million Americans, can cause cognitive impairments that resemble dementia diseases like Alzheimer’s.
