An estimated 10 million American baby boomers will develop Alzheimer’s disease in their lifetime, placing enormous strains on the U.S. health-care system, new report from the Alzheimers Association , 2008 Alzheimer’s Disease Facts and Figures predicts.
• As many as 5.2 million people in the United States are living with Alzheimer’s.
• 10 million baby boomers will develop Alzheimer’s in their lifetime.
• Every 71 seconds, someone develops Alzheimer’s.
• Alzheimer’s is the seventh-leading cause of death.
• The direct and indirect costs of Alzheimer’s and other dementias to Medicare, Medicaid and businesses amount to more than $148 billion each year.
These are just a few of the facts in the new report, 2008 Alzheimer’s Disease Facts and Figures. The report is a comprehensive statistical abstract of U.S. data on Alzheimer’s disease that includes:
• prevalenceÂ
• mortality
• the costs of Alzheimer care
• family caregiving
• a special report on lifetime risk
New Report: 
 Alzheimer’s Disease Facts and Figures (43 pages)
Source: Alzheimers Association
