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TEN MILLION U.S. BABY BOOMERS WILL DEVELOP ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE
The Alzheimer’s Association® estimates that 10 million baby boomers will develop Alzheimer’s disease in the United States, according to their new report released: the “ 2008 Alzheimer’s Disease Facts and Figures”. .... The new report says the disease is poised to strike one out of eight baby boomers. According to the Alzheimer’s Association, now is the time to address this looming epidemic that currently has no effective disease modifying treatments that could halt or ....“The 2008 Alzheimer’s Disease Facts and Figures shows the tremendous impact this disease is having in California and nationwide. With more than 440,000 people with Alzheimer’s disease living in California today and with the prevalence expected to grow to 480,000 in just three short years, now is the time to develop an effective blueprint to deal with this disease,” said Lisa Bruner interim CEO of the Alzheimer’s Association San Diego/Imperial Chapter. Today, as many as 5.2 million Americans are living with Alzheimer’s disease, the seventh leading cause of death in the country and the fifth leading cause of death for those over age 65. The Association’s report offers numerous statistics that convey the burden Alzheimer’s imposes on individuals, families, government, business, and the nation’s health and long term care systems. For example: • Every 71 seconds, someone in America develops Alzheimer’s disease; by mid-century someone will develop Alzheimer’s every 33 seconds. • Women are nearly twice as likely as men to develop Alzheimer’s disease (17 percent vs. 9 percent). One in six women and one in ten men age 55 and older can expect to develop Alzheimer’s disease in their remaining lifetime. Although it may appear that being female is a risk factor, more women will develop Alzheimer’s because on average, women live longer than men, thereby having more time to develop the disease. • By 2010, there will be almost a half million new cases of Alzheimer’s disease a year; and by 2050, there will be almost a million new cases each year. • With seventy percent of people with Alzheimer’s and other dementias living at home where friends and family take care of them, the disease not only touches the individual but entire families. The report highlights that last year, in California alone there were over one million caregivers, providing over nearly a billion hours of unpaid care for a loved one with Alzheimer’s or another dementia valued at ten billion dollars. In 2007, there were nearly 10 million Americans age 18 and over providing 8.4 billion hours of unpaid care to people with Alzheimer’s disease valued at $89 billion. An additional quarter of a million Alzheimer caregivers were children age 8 to 18. XXXXXX and heart diseases: these conditions have greater incidence rates among Hispanics in comparison to non-Hispanics. Diabetes and the diseases of the heart tie with a greater risk to develop Alzheimer’s.
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