Dementia continues to grow as a significant problem in the United States. The CDC forecasts that between 2014 and 2060, the percent of the U.S. population living with dementia will rise from 1.6% of the population (5 million people) in 2014 to approximately 3.3% (13.9 million people) in 2060. And the rate at which Americans are dying directly from dementia has more than doubled from 30.5 deaths per 100,000 people in 2000 to 66.7 per 100,000 in 2017. And the cost to the U.S. is staggering, approaching $300 billion per year.

Here are two media articles about the expected doubling of the percent of U.S. persons living with dementia:

Rate of Americans living with Alzheimer’s expected to double by 2060

World Alzheimer’s Day: Why US Dementia Rates Will Likely Double By 2060

Here is the published CDC report:

Racial and ethnic estimates of Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias in the United States (2015–2060) in adults aged ≥65 years

Here are two media articles about the more than double increase in U.S. deaths directly due to dementia:

Deaths from dementia have more than doubled in US, report says

U.S. Dementia-Linked Death Rate More Than Doubles

Here is the CDC report:

Dementia Mortality in the United States, 2000–2017

Here are two media articles on the costs of Alzheimer’s disease to the U.S. health care system:



Alzheimer’s costs Americans $277 billion a year — and rising

Alzheimer’s: The Most Expensive Disease in America

All links have been added to Alzheimer’s > Epidemiology.