A modelling study estimates costs of informal care for brain health disorders, indicating major financial impacts globally.
Lastuka A, Mitchell AJ, Cogswell IE, et al. Estimating the costs of informal care for individuals with brain health disorders from 2000 to 2021: a modelling study. Lancet Public Health 2026; 11: e176–86—In this Article, numbers for hours of care reported in the Summary and Results sections were incorrect (these were weekly rather than annual, and the weekly number should have been 6 billion, as shown in the table): “…globally, informal caregivers for brain health disorders provided 314·5 billion (95% uncertainty interval 265·3–376·0) hours of care in 2021, at a cost of US$1·7 trillion (1·5–2·1) in forgone earnings.
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