Alzheimer's Pandemic Looming

Caroline Richter, a columnist for the Fort Worth Star Telegram asks if Alzheimer’s Disease might rightly be considered a pandemic.

A pandemic is defined by Webster's as "an epidemic of infectious disease that is spreading through human populations across a large region; for instance a continent, or even worldwide." H1N1 was described as a looming crisis of epic proportions that would forever alter life as we know it.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimate that of November 2009, 23,000 of the reported H1N1 cases that required hospitalization occurred in patients 65 or older.

The CDC count of H1N1-related deaths in the over-65 group for the same period was 1,360 for the entire year.

In comparison, every hour of every day brings a diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease, or dementia, to 40 U.S. citizens, 980 per day and 360,000 per year. I believe we are experiencing an Alzheimer's pandemic.

Read more at the Fort Worth Star Telegram

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