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Home > Cost of Chronic Disease > Neurological Disease: Alzheimer's Disease and Park... > The Future Economic Cost of Neurological Disease
Total Medicare spending on treating beneficiaries with Alzheimer's disease will increase from $62 billion in 2000 to $189 billion in 2015. By 2050, Medicare will be spending more than $1 trillion on Alzheimer's disease, or 4 out of every 10 dollars spent by the program.
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National Insitutes of Health, National Institute on Aging. "2005-2006 Progress Report on Alzheimer's Disease". 2007.  [ Permalink ]