dementias

Unless effective treatment and prevention can be found, by 2050 the number of Americans with dementias will triple to nearly 16 million, while the medical costs of caring for them will balloon to $1.1 trillion per year, more than double the total current Medicare budget.

Ruth Bettelheim, Ph.D.: Dementia: A Silent Crisis That May Bankrupt America Ph.D. Ruth Bettelheim 2011

According to leading researchers, including professors Bruce Miller of the University of California-San Francisco and Ottavio Arancio of Columbia University, increasing this amount to $1 billion each year for the next decade would be sufficient to develop methods to treat, prevent or cure most dementias.

Ruth Bettelheim, Ph.D.: Dementia: A Silent Crisis That May Bankrupt America Ph.D. Ruth Bettelheim 2011

Unless effective treatment and prevention can be found, by 2050 the number of Americans with dementias will triple to nearly 16 million, while the medical costs of caring for them will balloon to $1.1 trillion per year, more than double the total current Medicare budget.

Ruth Bettelheim, Ph.D.: Dementia: A Silent Crisis That May Bankrupt America Ph.D. Ruth Bettelheim 2011

According to leading researchers, including professors Bruce Miller of the University of California-San Francisco and Ottavio Arancio of Columbia University, increasing this amount to $1 billion each year for the next decade would be sufficient to develop methods to treat, prevent or cure most dementias.

Ruth Bettelheim, Ph.D.: Dementia: A Silent Crisis That May Bankrupt America Ph.D. Ruth Bettelheim 2011

Unless effective treatment and prevention can be found, by 2050 the number of Americans with dementias will triple to nearly 16 million, while the medical costs of caring for them will balloon to $1.1 trillion per year, more than double the total current Medicare budget.

Ruth Bettelheim, Ph.D.: Dementia: A Silent Crisis That May Bankrupt America Ph.D. Ruth Bettelheim 2011

According to leading researchers, including professors Bruce Miller of the University of California-San Francisco and Ottavio Arancio of Columbia University, increasing this amount to $1 billion each year for the next decade would be sufficient to develop methods to treat, prevent or cure most dementias.

Ruth Bettelheim, Ph.D.: Dementia: A Silent Crisis That May Bankrupt America Ph.D. Ruth Bettelheim 2011

It was found that a disproportionately large percentage of women that went on to develop Alzheimer's or other dementias had high levels of adiponectin in their blood.

Scott Mendelson, M.D.: Does Adiponectin Cause Or Prevent Alzheimer's Dementia? M.D. Scott Mendelson 2012

Evidence is accumulating in support of the concept that obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is a cause if not the cause of Alzheimer's Disease and/or other dementias and treatment is as simple as the use of a positive airway pressure (PAP) machine.

John O'Connor, husband of former high court justice, dies at 79 2009

Unless effective treatment and prevention can be found, by 2050 the number of Americans with dementias will triple to nearly 16 million, while the medical costs of caring for them will balloon to $1.1 trillion per year, more than double the total current Medicare budget.

Ruth Bettelheim, Ph.D.: Dementia: A Silent Crisis That May Bankrupt America Ph.D. Ruth Bettelheim 2011

According to leading researchers, including professors Bruce Miller of the University of California-San Francisco and Ottavio Arancio of Columbia University, increasing this amount to $1 billion each year for the next decade would be sufficient to develop methods to treat, prevent or cure most dementias.

Ruth Bettelheim, Ph.D.: Dementia: A Silent Crisis That May Bankrupt America Ph.D. Ruth Bettelheim 2011