NIH R01 · 2025
PROJECT SUMMARY Poor health and cognitive decline in older adulthood are significant public health challenges that profoundly impact individuals, their families, and society. In just the United States, current estimates of the healthcare costs of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) are at $345 billion per year. This number will balloon to over $1 trillion per year by 2060 as the number of Americans living with AD will likely double to nearly 14 million. These stark numbers represent only a fraction of the world-wide burden of AD. It is crucial to identify potential risk factors to track the prevalence, emergence, and origins of AD and compromised cognitive health across the second half of life. One…
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