A new report suggests up to 7.2 million Americans 65 and older are living with Alzheimer’s disease, an increase of about 300,000 cases of the mind-robbing disease from a year ago. The Alzheimer’s Association’s annual facts and figures report, released on April 29, 2025, said the total annual cost of caring for people living with Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementia will reach $384 billion in 2025. That figure does not include the cost of unpaid care from 12 million family members and friends who provide billions of hours of care valued at more than $400 billion, according to the report. The upswing in cases comes as the Trump administration has proposed or ordered, through executive actions unreviewed by Congress, steep cuts at the National Institutes of Health, the nation’s main source of federal grants for biomedical research, including Alzheimer’s and dementia. George Vradenburg, who chairs UsAgainstAlzheimer’s, said abrupt NIH funding cuts to universities studying Alzheimer’s could harm patients.

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