{"id":8719,"date":"2012-03-15T07:56:52","date_gmt":"2012-03-15T13:56:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/?p=8719"},"modified":"2020-03-06T12:54:40","modified_gmt":"2020-03-06T19:54:40","slug":"alzheimers-tsunami-growing-at-alarming-rate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/15\/alzheimers-tsunami-growing-at-alarming-rate\/","title":{"rendered":"Alzheimer&#8217;s Tsunami Growing at Alarming Rate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alz.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alzheimer&#8217;s Association&#8217;s<\/a> annual look at the prevalence of the disease and impact has resulted in startling numbers for 2012. The Mayo Clinic defines AD as:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Alzheimer&#8217;s disease causes brain changes that gradually get worse. It&#8217;s the most common cause of dementia \u2014 a group of brain disorders that cause progressive loss of intellectual and social skills, severe enough to interfere with day-to-day life. In Alzheimer&#8217;s disease, brain cells degenerate and die, causing a steady decline in memory and mental function.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>5.4 million<\/strong> Americans are living with Alzheimer&#8217;s disease.<\/li>\n<li><strong>One in eight<\/strong> older Americans has Alzheimer&#8217;s disease.<\/li>\n<li>Alzheimer&#8217;s disease is the <strong>sixth-leading cause of death<\/strong> in the United States and the only cause of death among the top 10 in the United States that cannot be prevented, cured or even slowed.<\/li>\n<li>More than <strong>15 million Americans provide unpaid care<\/strong> valued at $210 billion for persons with Alzheimer&#8217;s and other dementias.<\/li>\n<li>Payments for care are estimated to be <strong>$200 billion<\/strong> in the United States in 2012.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>2012 Political Influence<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usagainstalzheimers.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">USAgainstAlzheimer\u2019s<\/a> is a national advocacy campaign and independent advocacy network committed to stopping Alzheimer\u2019s by 2020. They work to advance policies to prevent, and cure Alzheimer\u2019s disease in our lifetime.<\/p>\n<p>Visit their site to see the 2012 political candidates positions on Alzheimer&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>Please join me in learning about this disease and making a difference through advocacy, education and funding.<\/p>\n<p>Climb On!<br \/>\nAlan<br \/>\nMemories are Everything<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Alzheimer&#8217;s Association&#8217;s annual look at the prevalence of the disease and impact has resulted in startling numbers for 2012. The Mayo [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[431],"class_list":["post-8719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alzheimers","tag-alzheimers"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8719\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}