Miami-Dade leads US in Alzheimer's cases-it's demographics
Jul 20, 2023 21:09:52 GMT
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Post by miamianne67 on Jul 20, 2023 21:09:52 GMT
From Today's Miami Herald I synopsize because my original post got lost in the cloud....
The population of Miami Dade, home or part time home to some of the richest people on earth is
80% hispanic/latino and black. Those two groups have genetic characteristics,, more poverty/less medical care etc. that leave them at a much higher risk for Alzheimer's that other groups. And we have the second highest senior population in the US, second to CA. Women are twice as likely to be diagnosed....because we live longer.
Nationally, 1 in 9 people 65 or older has Alzheimer's a terrible dementia disease which kills and strains loved ones to the max. FL to its credit just added over $12 million to the budget used for memory centers. I have seen in likely parts of town scores of private Adult Day Care" storefronts in numbers similar to child day care. What a bonanza that must be for the owners.
This data was just published by the Alzheimer's Association and is the product of a studiy by Rush University Medical Center in Chicago combined with race/ethnic data of persons over 65 in all states and counties gathered in 2020 by the National Center for Health Statistics. In Miami Dade 69% of the population is hispanic/latino and 17% is black. Aging increases the Alzheimer's risk. 14% of Miami Dade's population is over 85.
A study at UM's Miller School of Medicine found that poverty is an underlying determinant...untreated medical conditions, poor diet, lack of education leading to development of obesity, frailty, diabetes, hypertension, high cholesterol and other vascular risk factors which boost chances for Alzheimer's.
Currently there are 6 million people in America diagnosed with Alzheimer's expected to rise to 16 million by 2060. Recently Lequenbi was approved to slow progress. One wonders wy even more efforts are not being made to find treatments and cures......... if it has to do with the general lack of influence of those most likely to need treatment and have the ability to pay for it? I guess I'll get a lot of blot back on that comment.
The population of Miami Dade, home or part time home to some of the richest people on earth is
80% hispanic/latino and black. Those two groups have genetic characteristics,, more poverty/less medical care etc. that leave them at a much higher risk for Alzheimer's that other groups. And we have the second highest senior population in the US, second to CA. Women are twice as likely to be diagnosed....because we live longer.
Nationally, 1 in 9 people 65 or older has Alzheimer's a terrible dementia disease which kills and strains loved ones to the max. FL to its credit just added over $12 million to the budget used for memory centers. I have seen in likely parts of town scores of private Adult Day Care" storefronts in numbers similar to child day care. What a bonanza that must be for the owners.
This data was just published by the Alzheimer's Association and is the product of a studiy by Rush University Medical Center in Chicago combined with race/ethnic data of persons over 65 in all states and counties gathered in 2020 by the National Center for Health Statistics. In Miami Dade 69% of the population is hispanic/latino and 17% is black. Aging increases the Alzheimer's risk. 14% of Miami Dade's population is over 85.
A study at UM's Miller School of Medicine found that poverty is an underlying determinant...untreated medical conditions, poor diet, lack of education leading to development of obesity, frailty, diabetes, hypertension, high cholesterol and other vascular risk factors which boost chances for Alzheimer's.
Currently there are 6 million people in America diagnosed with Alzheimer's expected to rise to 16 million by 2060. Recently Lequenbi was approved to slow progress. One wonders wy even more efforts are not being made to find treatments and cures......... if it has to do with the general lack of influence of those most likely to need treatment and have the ability to pay for it? I guess I'll get a lot of blot back on that comment.
