Nearly every minute in this country someone is hearing the words: “You have Alzheimer’s disease" and experts fear it could become a trillion-dollar monster by the year 2050 if it is not stopped within the next decade.
Alzheimer's disease is among the top five killers in Arizona and economists are predicting the malady will soon become a trillion-dollar health care crisis.
It's not Alzheimer's that is responsible for caregiver deaths, but more often the stress that they endure when a loved one slides into a state dementia.
Economists are predicting Alzheimer’s will become a trillion-dollar burden over the next three decades. The United States spent $153 billion last year on Medicaid and Medicare alone.
Whether it’s heredity, the environment or diet, doctors still do not know the exact cause of Alzheimer’s, but they do know that the diagnosis is never expected, as was the case with Bob and Diane Stephen.
Three weeks after Maricopa County Sheriff's Office deputies rescued dozens of puppies from a Tonopah home in filth and disarray, authorities announced most of the animals would have new owners.
