Medicare expenditures on Alzheimer's (1992)

Surveillance for Morbidity and Mortality Among Older Adults -- United States, 1995-1996: "Per capita Medicare expenditure during 1992 was $6,208 for patients with dementia of the Alzheimer type (DAT), which is approximately twofold higher than for all Medicare beneficiaries without DAT " Although these numbers are very old, the MMWR is a GREAT RESOURCE for government health statistics and worth bookmarking.