Alzheimer’s is a disease that scares almost everyone, and today in America it has become so prevalent that it consumes one in every five Medicare/Medicaid dollars.
CNN reported that Alzheimer’s is the disease that could well bankrupt Medicare because, by the year 2050, more than half of Americans over the age of 65-years-old could have Alzheimer’s Disease. And experts say that the research dollars spent on Alzheimer’s are not enough to fund treatments or a cure.
According to an annual report released on Tuesday by the Alzheimer’s Association, one American will develop Alzheimer’s disease every 66 seconds this year. Then, by the year 2050, this number is expected to double to one every 33 seconds.
#Every66Seconds someone in the U.S. develops Alzheimer's. RT in support of all those who are living with this disease. #ENDALZ http://pic.twitter.com/4DUODAZP7I
— Alzheimer's Assoc. (@alzassociation) March 8, 2017
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