Home › Get support › Help near me
Help near me
Pick your state — and your county if you want — and see what we hold about it: how common Alzheimer's is, how many unpaid caregivers there are, what care costs locally, how many neurologists and nursing home beds there are, and what your state has committed to.
Why this page asks where you live
Almost everything about Alzheimer's care is decided at state level: what Medicaid covers, what a nursing home charges, whether there is a neurologist within an hour's drive, whether the state has a dementia plan. A national average can be badly wrong for one household.
Every figure on the next page carries the source it came from and the year it describes, and model estimates are labelled Modelled estimate — because a small-area model is not a head count.
If you need a person, not a number
You do not have to pick a state first. The Alzheimer's Association helpline — 1-800-272-3900 — is free, staffed by clinicians, open 24 hours a day, every day, and can route you to services in your own area. More numbers and their real opening hours are on the help page.
Where these numbers come from
- State figures
- panel_state.csv (19 KB, 51 rows) — column dictionary in panel_state_meta.json, which is where each card's source, year and caveat is read from.
- County figures
- panel_county.csv (2.5 MB, 3143 rows) — dictionary in panel_county_meta.json.
- Care settings
- care_settings.json
- Costs
- economics.json
- Policy
- policy.json
- Data collected
- 2026-09-21
What could make these numbers misleading
Several of the headline figures — how many people in a state have Alzheimer's, what Medicaid spends on dementia, the value of unpaid care — are model estimates, not counts. They come from statistical models applied to survey data, and they carry the Modelled estimate label wherever they appear. Prevalence in particular is a modelled projection onto 2020 population structure, not a registry of diagnosed people.
Different rows describe different years. A 2025 cost sitting beside a 2020 prevalence estimate is not a contradiction; it is the most recent published figure for each. The year is printed on every card for exactly this reason.
Every figure on this page is read straight out of a file in our data folder; nothing is typed in by hand. You can download the raw data and check any row yourself. This is a summary of published data, not medical advice.