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Is Alzheimer's an epidemic?

Posted: Mar 22nd 2007 3:19PM by Rigel Celeste
Filed under: Healthy Aging

Millions of people, 5 million+ people according to recent estimates, are living with Alzheimer's right now. That's a ten percent increase in the last five years, and with Alzheimer's being an age related disease those numbers are only projected to go higher and higher as the baby boomer population hits retirement age. Some are even using the word epidemic to describe the fact that by the year 2030 experts predict almost 8 million people will have the diagnosis.

Lay the blame on unbalanced technology -- we're keeping people alive longer by treating things like heart disease and cancer more effectively, only to be helpless when they come down with a diagnosis like Alzheimer's a few years later.

Oh, the irony.

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