Posted by Michael Wonder on 09 Jan 2017
Cost of older Australians with diabetes to hit $2.9 billion by 2030, new research shows
10 January 2017 - The indirect economic cost of rising numbers of ageing Australians with diabetes, measured in 'lost productive life years', is set to hit $2.9 billion a year by 2030, up from $2.1 billion in 2015.
New research, published in the BMJ Open journal on Tuesday, used population growth and disease trend data to estimate the likely cost of the disease among people aged 45 to 64 years old by 2030.
