Claim: "Currently, half a million Floridians have Alzheimer's disease, and in less than 10 years, a 40 percent growth rate means that another 200,000 Floridians will develop this devastating illness."
Fact-check: Do half a million people in Florida have Alzheimer's?
Verdict: mostly-true
Organisation: PolitiFact
Author: Louis Jacobson
Date published: 2017-03-14T00:00:00