Burgeoning Cost of Alzheimer's Disease Unsustainable

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Alzheimer's disease (AD) and other dementias will cost the United States an estimated $200 billion this year alone, according to the 2012 Alzheimer's Disease Facts and Figures report released today by the nonprofit Alzheimer's Association.

Medicare and Medicaid will foot most of the bill — respectively, $104.5 billion (52%) and $35.5 billion (18%). Medicare payments for an older person with AD and other dementias are nearly 3 times higher and Medicaid payments 19 times higher than for seniors without AD and other dementias, the report notes.

It also notes that most people with AD and other dementias have 1 or more serious chronic conditions, and AD acts as a cost multiplier on these other diseases.

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