The $1.2 Trillion Question: How Can we Effect a LTC System to Deal with Alzheimer’s?

By George Vradenburg

$1.2 trillion. That’s the projected annual cost by 2050 of caring for Americans suffering from Alzheimer’s. To put it in perspective, the price tag for rescuing the U.S. financial system during the 2008 crash was $700 billion. The Apollo program to land an American on the moon cost about $110 billion in today’s dollars.

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