AFRICAN AMERICANS BEAR MORE THAN ONE-THIRD OF U.S. ALZHEIMER’S COSTS
AfricanAmericanNetworkAgainstAlzheimer’s Launches with New Report on Alzheimer’s DisparitiesWASHINGTON, DC (September 19, 2013)—A new report released today finds that African Americans bear more than one-third of the nation’s costs of Alzheimer’s and dementia care, although they make up less than 14% of the population. The costs for African Americans in 2012 were nearly $71.6 billion, out of total national costs of $210 billion.
Health economists at Johns Hopkins University authored the report for the AfricanAmericanNetwork AgainstAlzheimer’s
