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Epidemic
Alzheimers is an epidemic. More than half of all Americans now know someone with Alzheimers. Almost 30% of Americans have a family member with the disease. To know Alzheimers is to fear it. 9 out of ten Americans who know someone with Alzheimers are concerned that they or someone close to them will one day develop the fatal disease.
US Numbers
Today there are 5.3 million people living with Alzheimers disease. 5.1 million are age 65 and older and 200,000 are under age 65 and have younger-onset Alzheimers disease. Every 70 seconds someone develops Alzheimers disease and by 2050 someone will develop the disease every 33 seconds. In 2011, baby boomers begin turning 65.
78.2M baby boomers (46-64)
Ten million baby boomers will develop Alzheimers disease in the United States (1 out of 8).
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Alzheimers Disease Facts and Figures 2010
Results:
Medicare payments are 3x higher for beneficiaries with Alzheimers disease
Care: Those with Alzheimers require extensive care; half of those in nursing homes are estimated to have dementia Complications: Most people with Alzheimers have one or more other serious medical condition
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Although whites make up the great majority of the more than 5 million people with Alzheimers disease, African-Americans and Hispanics are at higher risk.
African-Americans are about two times more likely than whites to have Alzheimers and dementia. Hispanics are about one and one-half times more likely than whites to have Alzheimers and dementia.
Delays in diagnosis mean that African-Americans and Hispanics are not getting treatments early when available medications are more likely to be effective and they have less opportunity to make legal, financial and care plans while they are still capable. RESULTING IN MORE COSTLY CARE!
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Survey Methodology
Surveys were conducted via telephone and online by Decision Analyst, Inc.,
a partner of Focus Latino, on behalf of the Alzheimers Association.
Respondents:
Hispanic/Latino males and females aged 25 or older (60% of Mexican origin) Male (n=325) / 37% Female (n=547) / 63% Age 65+ (n=113) / 13% If younger than 65, also screened for a parent or close family member who was aged 50
or older
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Executive Summary
Most Hispanics feel that awareness of Alzheimers disease is low in the Latino community. Most also feel that their personal awareness of the disease is only somewhat or not very knowledgeable.
The topics that would generate the most interest are the signs and symptoms, treatment and how the disease progresses.
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Only a third of Hispanics think of Alzheimers when they hear the word dementia, even though Alzheimers is the most common form of dementia. Almost all Hispanics realize that Alzheimers is progressive, but only about half realize it is fatal. Virtually all Hispanics felt it was important to know the warning signs of Alzheimers to get help and the maximum benefit from treatments. Despite the importance placed on this knowledge, most did not feel that the Latino community was very aware of Alzheimers. Of the 10 Warning Signs of Alzheimers, only five were recognized by the majority of Hispanics. Relatively few recognized that withdrawal from activities could be a warning sign.
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Somewhat Aware
30%
53%
11%
Q: In your opinion, what is the awareness level of Alzheimers disease in the Latino community? Do you think people are?
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Somewhat Knowledgeable
39%
40%
14%
Q: How knowledgeable would you say you, personally, are about of Alzheimer's? Would you say you are?
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93%
53%
Q: Do you think Alzheimers is a progressive brain disease that causes memory loss and problems with thinking and behavior? Q: Do you think Alzheimers is fatal?
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73%
22%
3%
1%
Very Unimportant
1%
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47% 32% 7% 6% 8%
1 to 10 11 to 20 21 to 30 31 to 40 41 to 50 51 to 60 61 or more
Q: What country were you born in? Q: How many years have you been living in the United States?
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Women are at the epicenter of the Alzheimer epidemic. Nearly 10 million American women either have Alzheimers or are caring for someone with the disease.
Two-thirds of the people who have Alzheimers 3.3 million are women. Sixty percent of Alzheimer caregivers 6.7 million are women.
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Women are nearly half of all workers, and mothers are the primary breadwinners or co-breadwinners in two-thirds of American families. (The Shriver Report: A Womans Nation
Changes Everything)
America is now a nation of women breadwinners who are raising the next generation as they care for the last generation.
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Four out of ten caregivers say they had no choice in becoming caregivers. 6 of 10 women became caregivers because they lack other family to do it. 40% of women became caregivers because they were the only females in their families. Roughly a quarter of women caregivers promise to keep their loved ones out of an institution.
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For every $25,000 the government spends on care for people with Alzheimers and dementia, it spends only $100 for Alzheimer research.
*Updated May 20, 2010 National Center for Health Statistics
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Deaths by:
HIV declined 22.0% Stroke declined 18.9% Heart Disease declined 13.3% Prostate Cancer declined 6.4%
*Updated May 20, 2010 by the National Center for Health Statistics
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