The Begining of an Alzheimer’s Epidimic?

With the ballooning older adult segment of the U.S. and of global population, we are just at the beginning of the Alzheimer's epidemic. It’s an epidemic that is as huge for its health and social impact as it is for its fiscal consequences, which will explode beyond the $604 billion or 1 percent of global GDP now in play states the Fiscal Times. This may explain the mention by Dr. Margaret Chan in her forward for the new book launched at Davos last month, Global Population Aging: Peril or Promise. She says of Alzheimer’s: “If we do not adapt, [population aging]…

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