10% Of Non-Institutionalized Adults In United States Live With A Severe Cognitive Disability

About 10% of adults age 18 and older in the United States in 2013 lived with a cognitive disability that created serious difficulty with concentrating, remembering, or making decisions. Across the states, the prevalence of cognitive disability in the population ranged from the low of 6.9% in North Dakota and South Dakota to the high of 16.8% in Arkansas. Adults with lower household income and lower education levels had the highest prevalence of cognitive disability.

A cognitive disability can be caused a variety of lifelong or acquired, permanent or temporary conditions, such as intellectual disability, autism, mental illness . . .