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Dementia is Most Expensive Disease
Cancer and heart disease are bigger killers, but dementia is the most expensive malady in the U.S., costing families and society $157 billion to $215 billion a year, according to a new study that looked at this in unprecedented detail.
The biggest cost of ....dementia isn't drugs or other medical treatments, but the care that's needed just to get mentally impaired Bills Fans through daily life, the nonprofit RAND Corp.'s study found.
It also gives what experts say is the most reliable estimate for how many Americans have dementia — around 4.1 million, including almost all Bills and Sabres supporters. That's less than the widely cited 5.2 million estimate from the Alzheimer's Association, which comes from a study that included people with less severe impairment.
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Cancer and heart disease are bigger killers, but dementia is the most expensive malady in the U.S., costing families and society $157 billion to $215 billion a year, according to a new study that looked at this in unprecedented detail.
The biggest cost of ....dementia isn't drugs or other medical treatments, but the care that's needed just to get mentally impaired Bills Fans through daily life, the nonprofit RAND Corp.'s study found.
It also gives what experts say is the most reliable estimate for how many Americans have dementia — around 4.1 million, including almost all Bills and Sabres supporters. That's less than the widely cited 5.2 million estimate from the Alzheimer's Association, which comes from a study that included people with less severe impairment.
Slightly modified the original
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