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2012 Costs Fact Sheet Version Alzheimers Association
2012 Costs Fact Sheet Version Alzheimers Association
With the aging of the baby boom Costs will also expand in lock step. By
generation, the number of Americans 2050, combined Medicare and Medicaid
aged 65 and over with Alzheimers is spending on people with Alzheimers will
expected to dramatically escalate. more than quadruple to $758 billion (in
2017 dollars).
Today, an estimated 5.3 million Americans aged
65 and over are living with Alzheimers disease. In 2050, Medicare spending on people with
Alzheimers will total $570 billion an increase of
By 2050, there are projected to be nearly a million
335 percent from todays spending levels. This
new cases every year, with another American
will represent an estimated one in every three
developing Alzheimers every 33 seconds.
dollars of total Medicare spending.
The number of Americans living with Alzheimers
Medicaid spending on people with Alzheimers will
will nearly triple by 2050 to 13.8 million and
increase nearly 332 percent between now and
could be as high as 16 million.
2050, as costs will reach $188 billion in 2050.
12.8
$758
11.6
9.9 $614
8.4 $509
6.8 $402
5.8
5.3 $310
$237
$175 $189