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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.
Alzheimer's in Texas
Every card shows the source and year it came from. Open "what this number does and doesn't mean" on any card to see the caveat the people who published it attached to it.
Alzheimer's in this state
What this number does and doesn't mean
Modeled estimate based on 2020 age/sex/race population distributions, not a direct case count or registry; published in the 2025 F&F report.
What this number does and doesn't mean
Report gives this in thousands (1 decimal); value here is that figure x1000, rounded to nearest integer. Same modeled-estimate caveat as alz_prevalence_65plus_pct.
What this number does and doesn't mean
Computed rank, not a value published in the source report. Ties broken by original table order.
What this number does and doesn't mean
2022 is the most recent year with state-level mortality data available as of the 2025 report. US total for this column is 120,122 (rate 36.0/100k).
What this number does and doesn't mean
Report explicitly presents UNADJUSTED rates (not age-adjusted) so that larger/older-population states aren't penalized in the comparison; do not treat as age-standardized.
Unpaid caregivers here
What this number does and doesn't mean
Report gives this in thousands; value here is that figure x1000. US total 11,926,000.
What this number does and doesn't mean
US total 19,161 million hours (~19.2 billion).
What this number does and doesn't mean
Report gives this in millions of dollars; value here is that figure x1,000,000. Valued at a blend of state minimum wage and median home-health-aide hourly cost (a conservative estimate per the report's own methodology note). US total $413,454 million (~$413.5 billion).
Doctors and beds
What this number does and doesn't mean
Based on AAN membership records, not a full practitioner census; likely a modest, roughly uniform undercount of true neurologist supply.
What this number does and doesn't mean
2021 is the most recent year available in the source report; included as a bonus workforce-supply column alongside primary_care_physicians_per_100k and neurologists_per_100k.
What this number does and doesn't mean
Includes nurse practitioners and physician assistants alongside physicians, so this is broader than a 'physicians only' count.
What this number does and doesn't mean
Covers staffed community hospital beds (~85% of all US hospitals report to the AHA Annual Survey).
What this number does and doesn't mean
IMPORTANT: denominator is population 65+, not total population -- NOT directly comparable to hospital_beds_per_1000, which is per 1,000 TOTAL population.
What the state spends
What this number does and doesn't mean
Report gives this in millions of dollars; value here is that figure x1,000,000. This is a projection for 2025, expressed in 2024 dollars, produced by the Lewin Group's actuarial model, not raw CMS claims.
What this number does and doesn't mean
Computed value, not published directly. Numerator is 2025-projected dementia-specific Medicaid spend (Table 22); denominator is 2024 total population (Census), so there is a 1-year vintage mismatch between numerator and denominator. Also note this is total dementia-related Medicaid spend, not specifically LTSS/long-term-services-and-supports spend, which was not separately available by state.
What this number does and doesn't mean
'All Medicare' column from Table 19 (blends Medicare-only and dual-eligible beneficiaries); bonus column included alongside medicaid_dementia_spend_total_usd to give a Medicare-side cost comparison, not part of the originally requested column list.
State policy
What this number does and doesn't mean
Source states that every state, DC, and Puerto Rico has published a plan since 2007; all 51 rows are therefore 1. Plan VINTAGE varies widely by state (some updated 2020-2024, some older) -- presence of a plan does not imply currency.
What this number does and doesn't mean
26 of 51 rows are BLANK, not 0: a secondary aggregate source (PMC11690893) states 43 states have SOME dementia training requirement, meaning several blank rows here likely should be 1, but the individual per-state confirming PDFs (at act.alz.org and justiceinaging.org) were not opened one-by-one to verify which. Treat the 25 rows marked 1 as confirmed; treat blanks as 'unconfirmed', not 'no'.
Who lives here
What this number does and doesn't mean
July 1, 2024 estimate.
What this number does and doesn't mean
Not a single published Census count; combines 2024 population total with 2023 ACS age-share, so treat as an approximation, not an official Census 65+ count.
What this number does and doesn't mean
2023 ACS-based estimate, not the 2020 decennial Census urban/rural classification.
What this number does and doesn't mean
Inflation-adjusted to 2023 dollars per Census convention.
What this number does and doesn't mean
ACS-based rather than BRFSS-based, so Tennessee is populated here even though it is blank in several BRFSS-sourced columns.
Health of the wider population
What this number does and doesn't mean
Tennessee blank: TN did not submit sufficient 2024 BRFSS sample for KFF to report a value.
What this number does and doesn't mean
Tennessee blank, same BRFSS reporting-threshold reason as pct_diabetes.
What this number does and doesn't mean
Kentucky and Pennsylvania blank: KFF states these two states did not meet minimum sample requirements for inclusion in the 2023 release.
What this number does and doesn't mean
Tennessee blank (insufficient 2024 BRFSS sample).
What this number does and doesn't mean
Calculated as 100 minus KFF's 'any physical activity in past month' measure -- a close but not identical proxy for BRFSS's classic 'no leisure-time physical activity' question. Tennessee blank.
What this number does and doesn't mean
Tennessee value is 2023 (27.3%) because the 2024 BRFSS row for TN was marked unavailable nationally; all other states are 2024.
What this number does and doesn't mean
Oldest data-year in the risk-factor block (2014-2016 pooled); no newer full 51-state BRFSS hearing-loss table was locatable in this session.
Care settings in Texas
What it costs, how many places there are, and how they are staffed. Costs are survey medians for Texas — half the providers surveyed charged more than this, half charged less. A median is not a quote.
| What | Value | Year | Basis | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nursing home, semi-private room Median daily rate, nursing home semi-private room |
185 USD per day |
2025 | Measured | assets.carescout.com |
| Nursing home, private room Median daily rate, nursing home private room |
250 USD per day |
2025 | Measured | assets.carescout.com |
| Assisted living, private one-bedroom Median monthly cost, assisted living community (private one-bedroom) |
5,666 USD per month |
2025 | Measured | assets.carescout.com |
| Certified nursing homes Certified nursing homes |
1,177 providers |
2026 | Measured | data.cms.gov |
| Certified nursing home beds Certified nursing home beds |
133,408 beds |
2026 | Measured | data.cms.gov |
| Nursing home residents Average nursing home residents per day (sum of facility averages) |
88,704 residents per day |
2026 | Measured | data.cms.gov |
| Nurse staffing, hours per resident per day Reported total nurse staffing hours per resident per day (facility mean) |
3.385 hours per resident per day |
2026 | Measured | data.cms.gov |
| Mean overall CMS 5-star rating Mean overall 5-star rating of nursing homes |
2.65 stars (1-5) |
2026 | Measured | data.cms.gov |
| Facilities with an Alzheimer's/dementia unit Certified nursing homes reporting Alzheimer's/dementia unit beds |
64 providers |
2026 | Measured | data.cms.gov |
| Beds in Alzheimer's/dementia units Alzheimer's/dementia special-care-unit beds in certified nursing homes |
1,987 beds |
2026 | Measured | data.cms.gov |
| Residential care residents with dementia Share of residential care community residents with Alzheimer disease or other dementias |
43.4 percent |
2020 | Measured | data.cdc.gov |
| Geriatricians Medicare Part B-billing physicians with specialty 'Geriatric Medicine' |
115 physicians |
2024 | Measured | data.cms.gov |
| Geriatricians per 100,000 people age 65+ Medicare-billing 'Geriatric Medicine' physicians per 100,000 adults 65+ |
2.64 per 100,000 age 65+ |
2024 | Measured | data.cms.gov |
| Neurologists Medicare Part B-billing physicians with specialty 'Neurology' |
1,109 physicians |
2024 | Measured | data.cms.gov |
| Neurologists per 100,000 people age 65+ Medicare-billing 'Neurology' physicians per 100,000 adults 65+ |
25.42 per 100,000 age 65+ |
2024 | Measured | data.cms.gov |
| Hospital readmission rate, dementia Share of hospital stays of Medicare beneficiaries with Alzheimer's or other dementias followed by readmission within 30 days |
22.1 percent |
2023 | Measured | alz.org |
| Emergency department visits, dementia Emergency department visits per 1,000 Medicare beneficiaries with Alzheimer's or other dementias |
1,549.1 visits per 1,000 beneficiaries |
2023 | Measured | alz.org |
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What Alzheimer's costs Texas
What this number does and doesn't mean
State totals do not sum to US total due to rounding.
What this number does and doesn't mean
Small-area estimate (Lewin Model); do not treat as measured state expenditure.
What this costs you is a different question from what it costs the state. See what care is priced at in Texas.
What Texas has put in law or policy
| Policy | Type | Year | Status | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CDC BOLD award NU58DP007500 to Department Of State Health Services
BOLD Public Health Programs to Address ADRD (2023-2028 cohort, CDC-RFA-DP23-0010). Period of performance 2023-09-30 to 2028-09-29. USAspending description: BOLD PUBLIC HEALTH PR... |
Funding | 2023 | In effect | usaspending.gov |
| CDC BOLD award NU58DP007513 to Cameron County
BOLD Public Health Programs to Address ADRD (2023-2028 cohort, CDC-RFA-DP23-0010). Period of performance 2023-09-30 to 2028-09-29. USAspending description: GOING BOLD IN CAMERON COUNTY |
Funding | 2023 | In effect | usaspending.gov |
| Texas state Alzheimer's/dementia plan
2019-2023 State Plan for Alzheimer's Disease (Texas DSHS, required by SB 999 of 2019); first plan Putting the Pieces Together 2010-2015 (September 2010). |
Public health plan | 2019 | In effect | alzimpact.org |
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A status here reflects the source at the time it was read, not a live check of the statute book.
People you can call from Texas
These lines are national, not local to Texas. We do not hold a verified state-by-state directory of local organisations, so we are not going to print one. What we do hold is a short list of numbers that were each checked against the organisation's own page — and the first one will connect you to services in your own area.
- Alzheimer's Association 24/7 Helpline 800-272-3900 24 hours a day, 365 days a year Free, confidential support and information for people with dementia, caregivers, families and the public. Master's-level clinicians. Also Spanish.
- 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline 988 24/7 Call or text 988, or chat at 988lifeline.org. For anyone in emotional distress or a mental-health crisis, including caregivers.
- Alzheimer's Foundation of America (AFA) Helpline 866-232-8484 9:00 am - 9:00 pm ET, seven days a week Licensed social workers providing support, info and referrals. Also text message and web chat. Text: 646-586-5283
In a medical emergency, call 911. More numbers, and what each line does, 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.