Did you know?
• Alzheimer’s disease
affects an estimated 6.2 million Americans of all ages in 2021. Approximately 400,000 of
them are Texans.
• Alzheimer’s disease is the sixth leading cause of death in the U.S. and has
an economic burden of an estimated $355 billion annually.
• Texas ranks fourth in the number of Alzheimer’s disease cases and second in
the number of Alzheimer’s disease deaths.
• Nearly 3.8 million
of the estimated 6.2 million Americans age 65 and older with Alzheimer’s disease are women and 2.4 million are men. Women are more likely to have other dementias.
• In 2020, there
were an estimated 11 million unpaid caregivers in the U.S., most of whom were
family members.
• In Texas, approximately 1.08 million unpaid caregivers provided care to Texans
with Alzheimer’s disease in 2020. This equates to an estimated 1.76 billion hours of unpaid
care at a cost of approximately $25.7 billion per year.
Source: Alzheimer’s Disease Facts and
Figures 2021