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Against the background of population aging the central question of this thesis is the future development of people with dementia in Germany. Prevalences, incidence rates, co-morbidity and risk factors of dementia are calculated as basis for projection scenarios. Several assumptions of the life expectancy and dementia incidence were combined in multi-state projections. Results of the future number of people with dementia in 2050 range from 2.0 to 3.3 million. Also the costs of dementia, one of the most expensive diseases, were projected.

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2004-2009 Research Scientist at the University of Rostock, Department of Sociology & Demography; since 2005 Guest Researcher at the Rostock Center for the Study of Demographic Change; since 2010 Research Scientist at the German Centre for Neurodegenerative Diseases (Dt. Zentrum für Neurodegenerative Erkrankungen in der Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft, DZNE)

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