Parkinson's disease costs Europe €22.8 billion annually, study finds

Across Europe, a quiet crisis of the nervous system is exacting a measurable toll: Parkinson's disease cost the continent €22.8 billion in a single year, a sum that reflects not only the price of medicine and care, but the invisible labor of families and the productivity lost to illness. With 2.2 million Europeans living with the condition in 2019—and prevalence nearly double what it was in 1990—the disease is expanding faster than the systems designed to meet it. Researchers are now calling for standardized accounting across borders, recognizing that what cannot be measured consistently canno