Sep 21 2013
NPR: Report: Cases Of Elderly Dementia To Nearly Triple By 2050
By the middle of the century, the number of older people suffering from Alzheimer's and other forms of dementia will nearly triple, severely straining caregiving resources, the charity Alzheimer's Disease International says in a new study released Thursday (Neuman, 9/19).
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