2025 Alzheimer's Disease Facts & Figures ~ Dr. Domenico Pratico' MD, FCPP

The Alzheimer's Association recently released the 2025 Alzheimer’s Disease Facts & Figures.

Overall, the report unveils in the 2025 facts and figures the tremendous burden that Alzheimer's disease and dementia poses on the individuals affected, the caregivers, the government and the nation's health care system.

The message is clear: we cannot ignore Alzheimer’ s disease any longer!

Here are some facts:

1. More than 7 million people aged 65 and older in the U.S. are living with Alzheimer’s disease (1 million more compared with last year).

2. About 1 in 9 people age 65 and older has Alzheimer's.

3. 1 in 3 seniors dies with Alzheimer’s or another dementia.

4. Alzheimer’s disease kills more than breast and prostate cancer combined.

   Over 12 million of Americans provide care for people with Alzheimer’s or other dementias without pay, which is estimated to be equivalent to 19 billion working hours and to be worth roughly $347 billion.

5. Nearly 4 in 5 Americans would want to know if they had Alzheimer’s disease before having symptoms, or before those symptoms interfered with their activities.

6. This year the cost of caring for these individuals is expected to reach $384 billion – an increase of $15 billion over last year.

   
   

For more information go to: https://www.alz.org/alzheimers-dementia/facts-figures

While these new numbers are reason for serious concerns, we cannot underestimate the advancements that we are witnessing every day in what we call a new era of Alzheimer’s research with several new drugs and biomarker breakthroughs like the FDA approval of immunotherapies and the emergence of novel blood tests that are approaching the specificity and sensitivity of the current gold standard diagnostics such as PET scans and CSF tests.

All of us at the Pratico Lab know very well that behind those numbers there are loved ones, friends, parents, family members, and neighbors so let’s honor all of them by standing together against the disease, because only if we are united and engage as many people as possible, we will win this fight.

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Domenico Praticò, MD, holds the Scott Richards North Star Charitable Foundation Chair for Alzheimer’s Research and serves as a Professor and Founding Director of the Alzheimer’s Center at Temple, as well as a Professor of Neural Sciences at Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University.

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