Global selfhelp committee. Researchers who studied the disease, new jersey congressman Christopher Smith chairs the hearing. The committee will come to order, good afternoon, everybody, i apologize for the delay. We had a series of votes, and we have one later too, so i want to get right to it, i want to thank you for being here. Millions living in the world with apples heimers disease. More than the entire population of spain international. The number of victims who have alzheimers is tripling every year. We are in a race like few other diseases, its proliferating so fast throughout the globe. According to dr. Menard, the Deputy Director of the National Institute on aging, who well hear from moment air lily. The number is increasing. Theres also early on set as well. There seems to be a higher proclivity the chances of some form of dementia is 1 out of 2. The cost of addressing this question today. As early as next year, its estimated this cost will rise to at least 1 trillion, thats
It would be nice if we had a cure. There are certainly cultural differences rather than keeping people at home than institutions. We have supported research on care givers in the Spanish Language. The way you make a clinical diagnosis based on history is linked to the terms that are used for dementia and for the disease. I think its an area where we are learning but not breakthroughs and such, just in the quality of care giving. I understand that. My mother suffered for four years. A woman from trinidad and from ghana treated my mother like they were their mother. We had thanksgiving with these two women. My mother passed go years ago. The toll it takes on people. Almost my mother had this innocence about her. It was everybody around her who was suffering. Is reck cognition is just as important. When you are successful and you do develop a treatment or a cure another one of my fears is as we spoke about Global Health and child health or even Prenatal Health is that we are not getting t
Festivals. I justha really want to say thak you to all of you for coming out today and having come out for 15 years. I also want to say thank you Madison Public Library for taking this event on when it was unsure whether someone would and for giving us this beautiful space to keep putting on the fence for the public in medicine and just in where you came from today. I also wantt to thank the madisn Public Library foundation. They do all the private fundraising. It keeps these events free and t open to the public. Weve been doing this is our fifth festival at Madison Public Library at all our events have been free. We can break even about that and we hope you do, too. I want to say a huge thank you h to them and to all the sponsors who helped put on this festival throughout the years. I would ask you now to please silence your cell phones. That goes for date as well. And probably me. Youve got to check. I really would just like to start my introduction today by saying im not a scientist
2004. Markets, isthe similar playbook to what we saw in 2017. Records for the major averages. Technology leading again. A pretty broadbased rally. Energy and Consumer Discretionary also getting a lift today. Lets talk car manufacturing. We are getting the december u. S. Auto sales figures for the major auto manufacturers. We are seeing the numbers come in with declines in many cases. General motors down 3. 3 . The estimate was for a decrease of 7. 3 . Ford posting unexpected gain in its sales of 1. 3 as the f series had its best pickup since 2005. Chrysler. 11 for via that matched the average analyst estimate. Outside of stocks, we are taking a look at the dollar today, which is seeing a bit of a rebound. The past five days of trading for the u. S. Dollar, declines that add up to 5 . It is a pretty small one. On the flipside, weve been watching Industrial Metals recently. Look at an index of Industrial Metals, we have seen that rally here. At the top is the price. On the bottom is the
Alzheimers is projected to or likely to double every 20 years, we are in a race like few other diseases because it is proliferating so fast throughout the globe and according to dr. Maria bernard, the Deputy Director of the National Institute on age who will hear from momentarily, the numbers estimated to grow to 15 million by 2050 as populations around the world age. Predominantly it is a one of the byproducts of all of us aging and there seems to be a higher procliffty the older one gets and its been estimated that once somebody reaches 85, the chance of some form of dementia is one out of two. Its a very serious problem. The total estimated global cost of addressing this condition today is 818 billion but as early as next year it is estimated that this cost will rise to at least 1 trillion per year and it will go up from there. As we all know, alzheimers is a cruel disease robbing its victims of their memories and identities, robbing their family and friends of the person they know