The number of dementia patients across the nation reported as 405,000 which increased by 87.2% for the past four years

Patients with ‘dementia,’ a typical aging disease, have increased by 87.2% for the past four years, an annual growth rate of 17%.

Especially, women with dementia are 2.5 times more than men; while, women aged over 70 is 64.4 % out of the total dementia patients.

According to the analysis of ‘dementia’ patients released by the Health Insurance Review Agency (HIRA) based on the health insurance...