Alzheimer’s in America: the defining disease of baby boomers

The Alzheimer’s Association has published an informative new report entitled Generation Alzheimer’s: the defining disease of the baby boomers. 

In addition to the human toll, over the next 40 years Alzheimer’s will cost the nation $20 trillion, enough to pay off the national debt and still send a $20,000 check to every man, woman and child in America. And while every 69 seconds someone in America develops Alzheimer’s disease today, by 2050 someone will develop the disease every 33 seconds – unless the federal government commits to changing the Alzheimer’s trajectory.