Dementia Care Costs $215B a Year, Topping Cancer and Heart Disease

... to be $109 billion per year compared to $102 billion in 2010 for heart disease and $77 billion for cancer. Alzheimer's disease, one of the types of disease covered under dementia, affects around 5.3 million Americans. And by 2050 the number of ...

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