Alzheimer's is Your Disease

There are no Alzheimer’s survivors to rally for your disease. No survivors appealing to congress to fund research for your disease. Your disease will bankrupt the health care system if a cure is not found – totaling $604 billion in 2010. By 30, you will have a chance to get your disease. At 65, your chance of getting your disease doubles every five years. You are not alone; someone will develop your disease every 33 seconds by 2030—you will be among the 65.7 million people worldwide who do not survive this disease. In 2010, the leading cause of death killed 7.9 million people; as the sixth leading cause of death, dementia’s 35.6 million cases had no survivors.