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December 4, 2016
Who Says There's No Good News?
Dramatic decline in dementia seen among older adults in the US It had been thought that the baby boomers’ march toward old age would triple the number of Alzheimer’s patients by 2050.These new numbers not only portend a lesser burden on the health care system (and families) but also suggest that something has changed over the generations — and identifying that change could drive down dementia rates even further.
That’s a significant decline: If the rate of dementia in 2012 had been what it was in 2000, “there would be well more than 1 million additional people with dementia,” said John Haaga, director of the National Institute on Aging’s behavioral and social research, who was not involved in the study. As it is, an estimated 5 million Americans 65 and older are afflicted with Alzheimer’s or other dementia.
Posted by gerardvanderleun at December 4, 2016 8:10 AM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.
Your Say
Then the 2016 election occurred and the statistcs went all the way off the LEFT side of the chart.
Yep, 1/2 the votists are insane and the other half are working on it relentlessly.
Posted by: ghostsniper at December 4, 2016 9:39 AM