--- title: Hillary Clinton Wants to Cure Alzheimer's by 2025 description: Clinton is proposing $2 billion worth of funding to find a cure canonical: https://time.com/4158803/clinton-alzheimers-2025/ author: Maya Rhodan article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-12-22T17:41:42.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T13:35:19.555Z article:section: Politics og:title: Hillary Clinton Announces Plan to Cure Alzheimer's by 2025 og:description: Clinton is proposing $2 billion worth of funding to find a cure og:url: https://time.com/4158803/clinton-alzheimers-2025/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt65cedcd65d5bb4df/69887683e20a876546a8ec67/502025844.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Democratic Presidential Candidates Debate In New Hampshire og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Hillary Clinton Announces Plan to Cure Alzheimer's by 2025 twitter:description: Clinton is proposing $2 billion worth of funding to find a cure twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt65cedcd65d5bb4df/69887683e20a876546a8ec67/502025844.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Hillary Clinton Announces Plan to Cure Alzheimer's by 2025 by [Maya Rhodan](https://time.com/author/maya-rhodan/) ## Maya Rhodan Dec 22, 2015 5:41 PM UTC  Democratic president candidate Hillary Clinton greet people following the debate at Saint Anselm College December 19, 2015 in Manchester, New Hampshire. Andrew Burton—Getty Images Democratic president candidate Hillary Clinton greet people following the debate at Saint Anselm College December 19, 2015 in Manchester, New Hampshire. Andrew Burton—Getty ImagesAndrew Burton—Getty Images by [Maya Rhodan](https://time.com/author/maya-rhodan/) ## Maya Rhodan Dec 22, 2015 5:41 PM UTC Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton is announcing a plan on Tuesday to invest $2 billion a year towards curing Alzheimer’s by 2025. During a campaign stop on Tuesday, Clinton is expected to announce the plan which would mark a substantial increase in annual federal funding for the disease. Reuters reports Alzheimer’s research received $588 million in funding last year. The 2016 budget allocated $350 million more in funding toward the disease, according to the Alzheimer’s Association, a 60% increase in funding from 2015. > [](https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton/status/679300468154220545) According to the [Alzheimer’s Association](http://www.alz.org/facts/overview.asp) an estimated 5.3 million Americans have Alzheimer’s in 2015, 5.1 million of whom are over the age of 65\. Over two-thirds of those afflicted with the disease are women and African Americans and Hispanics are more likely than whites to have Alzheimer’s. USA _Today_ reports Clinton said we “owe it it to the millions of families who stay up at night worrying about their loved ones afflicted by this terrible disease and facing the hard reality of the long goodbye to make research investments that will prevent, effectively treat and make a cure possible.” The official announcement is expected at Tuesday’s stop in Fairfield, Iowa, her last before taking a break for Christmas. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4158803/clinton-alzheimers-2025/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4158803/clinton-alzheimers-2025/"},"headline":"Hillary Clinton Announces Plan to Cure Alzheimer's by 2025","datePublished":"2015-12-22T17:41:42.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T13:35:19.555Z","description":"Clinton is proposing $2 billion worth of funding to find a cure","url":"https://time.com/4158803/clinton-alzheimers-2025/","keywords":["2016 Election","Hillary Clinton","2016 Election topic","Clinton","Alzheimer's"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt65cedcd65d5bb4df/69887683e20a876546a8ec67/502025844.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Maya Rhodan","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/maya-rhodan/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt65cedcd65d5bb4df/69887683e20a876546a8ec67/502025844.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Democratic Presidential Candidates Debate In New Hampshire","caption":"Democratic Presidential Candidates Debate In New Hampshire","creditText":"Andrew Burton—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/2016-election/","name":"2016 Election"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4158803/clinton-alzheimers-2025/","name":"Hillary Clinton Announces Plan to Cure Alzheimer's by 2025"}}]}] ```