(NaturalHealth365) By 2050, the Alzheimer’s Association estimates that 13.8 million Americans will be suffering from Alzheimer’s disease. That prediction will have a devastating effect on families and caregivers who will be affected by this growing health crisis. In fact, one of the biggest problems linked to Alzheimer’s is rarely mentioned in the media.
Current costs for Alzheimer’s care and other forms of dementia hovers at around $226 billion, with about 68 percent of that cost placed on Medicare and Medicaid. With the number afflicted likely to climb to nearly 14 million (very soon), that financial burden is expected to surge to an astounding $1.1 trillion. The result is expected to be – Medicare bankruptcy!