Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton is announcing a plan on Tuesday to invest $2 billion a year towards curing Alzheimer’s by 2025.
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The proposal could help boost research into an illness that has not only pressured the middle class families Clinton has made a centerpiece of her campaign, but is expected to weigh substantially on public spending as the USA population ages.
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In laying out the proposal, the Clinton campaign mentioned that women and older Hispanics and African-Americans are particularly vulnerable to the disease.
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It’s only been recently that researchers recognized how disproportionately women are afflicted by the disease, Egge said. She would also try and ease the burden facing caregivers by expanding Medicare to cover care-planning sessions, working with the federal government include information about Medicare-covered screenings on Social Security payments and push Congress to reauthorise a federal grants programme funding local initiatives to identify, locate and protect disoriented Alzheimer’s patients who wander from their homes.
Clinton would also create a national action plan with the help of NIH researchers and other stakeholders (including pharmaceutical companies) in order to achieve the 2025 goal, and said that ensuring a steady funding stream (rather just one-off increases such as the FY2016 spending bill) would be critical to realizing a cure.
While the increase is a step in the right direction, the costs of caring for those with Alzheimer’s totals an estimated $226 billion per year, and according to the researchers Clinton has consulted with, the $350 million increase is still less than half of what is needed to realistically find a cure within the next 10 years.
But Clinton proposed raising that budget to $2 billion per year until 2025. “This (additional funding) would make a lot of difference in the programs we could develop”, Jeffrey Cummings, director of the Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health in Las Vegas, said.
More than 5 million Americans are living with Alzheimer’s, and as many as 16 million will have the disease in 2050. The award funds three research projects including Kinney’s study of the interplay between brain inflammation and Alzheimer’s.
Tanzi, named one of Time magazine’s 100 most influential people, has been on the front lines of fighting the disease.
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“This disease has the potential to single-handedly collapse Medicare and Medicaid”, Tanzi said. Yet, he says, most of the drug trials being conducted are from genes his lab discovered in the 1980s and 1990s. He said that his mother died of Alzheimer’s in 2010 after suffering from the disease for 11 years. We probably will not have one white pill to kill the disease. Yet there’s no way to treat it. “It’s an issue people have swept under the rug”, he said.
