Proliferating so fast throughout the globe. And according to dr. Marie menard, who we will hear from, the number is estimated to grow to 115 million by 2050 as populations around the world age, although there is early onset as l but predominantly it is one of the byproducts of all of us ages and there seems to be a higher proclivity the woolder one gets. Once someone reaches 85, the chance of some form of dementia is one out of two. The total cost of addressing this is 818 billion. But as early as next year it is estimated that this cost will rise to at least 1 trillion. Thats per year. It will go up from there. As we all know, alzheimers is a cruel disease robbing its victims of their memories and their identities. Robbing their family and friends of the person they know and love. It is excruciatingly painful for someone who lose themselves gradually. I have spoken myself to many individuals, especially those who are early onset who have young families and are dealing with the agony t
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
Good evening everyone. Can anyone hear me well . Good. I am mary mclaughlin, a program coded with the Smithsonian Associates and i like to welcome you to what is promised to be very perfect halloween evening on the crucible of the victorian surgery. Before we begin risley like us everyone to check their cell phones and make sure they are silenced. Im also like to let you know that this program is being filled by cspan to be aired at a later date, so if youve enjoyed tonight program and would like it again, or if you think your friend like to see it, you should check over the next few weeks cspan and see if it is up. Sometimes it takes a couple of weeks for them to run a show and other times it can be one or two months. So its worth checking periodically. It is my pleasure to introduce our speaker doctor lindsey fitzharris. She tells me as a little girl shes to drag her grandmother trump cemetery to cemetery so that she could hunt ghosts. So some thought she was obsessed with death from
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
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