Did you know?
• Alzheimer’s disease
affects 5.8 million Americans of all ages in 2019. Approximately 390,000 of
them are Texans.
• Alzheimer’s disease is the sixth leading cause of death in the U.S. and has
an economic burden of $290 billion annually.
• Texas ranks fourth in the number of Alzheimer’s disease cases and second in
the number of Alzheimer’s disease deaths.
• Nearly 3.5 million
of the estimated 5.8 million Americans with Alzheimer’s disease are women and 2.1
million are men. Women are more likely to have other dementias.
• In 2018, there
were an estimated 16.2 million unpaid caregivers in the U.S., most of whom were
family members.
• In Texas, approximately 1.4 million unpaid caregivers provided care to Texans
with Alzheimer’s disease in 2018. This equates to 1.6 billion hours of unpaid
care at a cost of approximately $20.6 billion per year.
Source: Alzheimer’s Disease Facts and
Figures 2019