2011 Alzheimer’s Disease Facts and Figures alzheimers.org Recent surveys show: There are nearly 15 million Alzheimer’s and dementia caregivers providing 17 billion hours of unpaid care valued at more than $202 billion. Alzheimer’s disease is the nation’s largest underfunded public health threat with an estimated 5.4 million Americans living with the disease. Alzheimer’s is the only cause of death among the top 10 in the U.S. without a way to prevent, cure or even slow its progression. In fact, Alzheimer’s kills more people than diabetes and more people than breast cancer and prostate cancer combined. In 2010, Alzheimer’s and dementia caregivers had $7.9 billion in additional health care costs. Every 69 seconds someone in the United States develops Alzheimer’s Disease. Alzheimer’s home care counselors at Home Helpers HomeCare are available…
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Elder Care Chicago IL: Population-Wide Reduction in Salt Consumption Recommended ScienceDaily (Jan. 14, 2011) — The American Heart Association January 13 issued a call to action for the public, health professionals, the food industry and the government to intensify efforts to reduce the amount of sodium (salt) Americans consume daily. In an advisory, published in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association, the association sets out the science behind the American Heart Association’s recommendation for the general population, which is to consume no more than 1500 milligrams (mg) of sodium a day because of the harmful effects of sodium — elevated blood pressure and increased risk of stroke, heart attacks and kidney disease. Elevated blood pressure (hypertension) is a major public health problem — approximately 90 percent of all Americans…
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Chicago Home Helpers Owner Mike Doepke, CSA – Provides Much Needed Information for Families Struggling with Alzheimer’s Disease
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Starting Jan. 1, 79 million baby boomers will turn 65 at a rate of one every eight seconds. That is more than four million per year, according to a recent op-ed piece in The New York Times. If scientists could delay onset of the disease by five years, via better drugs, the United States could keep much fewer Alzheimer’s patients from needing nursing homes, former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, and Alzheimer’s experts Stanley Prusiner and Ken Dychtwald said in the piece.
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A group of Utah State University researchers and colleagues at Johns Hopkins University, Duke University and Boston University have demonstrated that the rate of clinical progression of dementia may be slowed by a close relationship with one’s caregiver. The findings will be published in the September 2009 issue of “The Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences” by Oxford Journals The research study “Caregiver Recipient Closeness and Symptom Progression in Alzheimer Disease. The Cache County Dementia Progression Study,” started in 2002 and monitored 167 participants with Alzheimer’s disease for three years. The study, funded by the National Institutes of Health, measured the cognitive and functional status of the participants and the caregiver-reported relationship of the participants. It was found that higher levels of closeness to ones caregiver…
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Patients diagnosed with dementia through screening ran up 13 percent less in health costs in the first year of treatment than before, according to a study suggesting wider detection could reduce U.S. medical expenses.
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