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Baby Boomers Who May Get Alzheimer’s Disease
The statistics are terrifying; if women live to age 55 they are twice as likely to succumb to Alzheimer’s as their male counterparts. Due to the fact that age is the greatest risk factor for Alzheimer’s Disease, and women live longer than men in general, you can do the math.
According to the Alzheimer’s Information organization, or http://www.alzinfo.org/, more that 10 million people are expected to develop Alzheimer’s Disease in the future decades.
If you ask me, the prognosis sounds grim. I read this news just today:
“Today, more than five million men and women in the United States are living with Alzheimer’s disease, with more than 400,000 new cases diagnosed each year. If no cure is found, there will be an estimated 450,000 new cases per year by 2010, and nearly a million a year by 2050.”
-Alzheimer’s Information site
What are some ways to hedge your bets to not become a statistic? I have read that keeping down the midlife “spread” will help, exercise will help, and using the brain on a daily basis for challenges such as learning a new language.
Due to the fact that my dear mother has Alzheimer’s Disease, my ears perk up when I hear anything about this subject. I plan to research this in the coming weeks and share what I learn.
Technorati Tags: Alzheimer’s Disease, Baby Boomers, Risk Factors for Alzheimer’s Disease
November 16th, 2009 at 4:47 pm
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