Alzheimer’s Disease Likely To Affect 18% Of Baby Boomers, Cost Health Care System $160B By 2010, Report Says

About 14 million baby boomers, or 18%, likely will develop Alzheimer’s disease or some other form of dementia, a development that could cost the U.S. health care system as much as $160 billion by 2010, according to a report released Monday by the Alzheimer’s Association, USA Today reports.

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Filed under: Seniors on April 2nd, 2008