Alzheimer's Disease Statistics

Did you know?

• Approximately 5 million Americans have Alzheimer’s disease (AD).  Unless a cure or prevention is found, that number will increase to 14 million by 2050.
• An estimated 280,000 Texas have Alzheimer’s disease.
• One in eight persons over 65 and nearly half of those over 85 have AD.  A small percentage of people as young as their 30s and 40s get the disease.
• Direct and indirect costs of AD and other dementia’s amount to more than $148 billion annually.
• Almost 10 million Americans are caring for a person with Alzheimer’s disease or another dementia; approximately one out of three of these caregivers is 60 years or older.
• In 2005, it is estimated that unpaid caregivers of people with Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias provided 8.5 billion hours of care valued at almost $83 billion dollars.  
• More than half the states in the United States provide more than a billion dollars in unpaid care each year – Texas $5.8 billion.

Last Updated October 17, 2007