Diagnosing Alzheimer’s

    Doctors can diagnose the disease with any of the 10 symptoms listed in Cause and Symptoms.  With new technology, doctors can look at the brain and see if it is shrunken with unnaturally wide spaces that separate the folds of nerve tissue, both of which Alzheimer’s causes.


                                       Cost of Alzheimer’s

    The cost of Alzheimer’s depends on how well you treat it and how easily the doctor can diagnose it.  If the doctor needs to run several tests to diagnose someone with Alzheimer’s, then it will cost more for that person, but if the doctor sees the symptoms very clearly with running very few or no tests, then it will cost less for that person.  Also the amount of medication someone takes can alter the cost.  Americans healthcare cost is nearly tripled if they are 65 years or older with Alzheimer’s. Medicare receives more than 148 billion dollars a year from people with Alzheimer’s, as does other businesses.