Alzheimer's disease costs could hit $1.5 trillion a year by 2050

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November 19, 2014
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Alzheimer's disease costs could hit $1.5 trillion a year by 2050
As baby boomers age, the annual cost of Alzheimer’s disease treatment in the United States is expected to reach nearly $1.5 trillion by 2050, according to a new study funded by the National Institutes of Health. That figure will rise from what the researchers said is the current cost of $307 billion yearly. The researchers also said that the per-patient cost of treatment is expected to double from its 2010 annual price tag of $71,000.

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Focus on tau protein may offer a path to Alzheimer's treatment
In the past decade, several promising drugs that target beta-amyloid, a protein that causes the sticky brain plaques associated with Alzheimer's, have failed to stop the disease. At this year's Society for Neuroscience meeting, there are more than 100 papers on tau, which is responsible for the tangles that form in the brains of people with Alzheimer's. The Alzheimer's Association has funded numerous studies to help researchers better understand what role tau plays in Alzheimer's disease and other dementias, and how we might target tau abnormalities with treatments and for early detection.
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