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Blacks, Hispanics at greater risk for getting Alzheimer’s than whites
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind.— Figures report shows the According to the new significant impact of
Alzheimer’s Association’s Alzheimer’s disease, on 2010 Alzheimer’s Disease the individual, the family
Facts and Figures2010, and the state and federal released last month, there government, all under-
is a rising prevalence in score the need for states to those with the disease in plan for the growing num-
Indiana, which now totals her and urgent service 120,000, an increase of 20 needs of these people,”
percent since 2000.
said Linda Altmeyer,
Some of the many top- director of programs for ics in this report include the chapter.
the following:
Impact of Alzheimer and Dementia on Caregivers
Race, Ethnicity and Alzheimer’s Disease
* Although whites make With family members pro- up the great majority of
treatment in the earlier stages of the disease when treatments are most effective and they also miss the opportunity to make legal, financial and care plans. “The Greater Indiana Chapter is committed to increasing awareness about risk factors for Alzheimer’s and other dementias among all Americans,” said Tina Mabrey, associate director of Community Services. “Our outreach programseeks to work with families dealing with Alzheimer’s disease in the minority community.”
Implications for Hoosier Health Care
Alzheimer’s is now the sixth leading cause of death in the United States, surpassing diabetes. The latest available data show that there were 1,696 deaths from Alzheimer’s in Indiana. As deaths from other chronic conditions like heart disease and stroke continue to fall, more Hoosiers will live long enough to develop Alzheimer’s disease with profound effects on fami-
lies and state budgets. Indiana has 85,600 residents in nursing homes that have cognitive impairments. Alzheimer’s disease patients are enrolled in many different types of health care facilities - from assisted living to adult day care. As the costs for these programs go up, the strain on families and patients do as well. The full text of the Alzheimer’s Association’s 2010 Alzheimer’s Disease Facts and Figures can be viewed at www.alz.org.
viding care at home for the more than
about 70 percent of people 5 million people with
with the disease, the ripple Alzheimer’s and other effects of Alzheimer’s dis- dementias, African
ease can be felt through- Americans and Hispanics out the affected person’s are at higher risk for
entire family. In 2009, nearly 11 million
developing the disease. • There are no known
Alzheimer caregivers in genetic factors that can the U.S. provided 12.5 bil- explain the greater preva-
lion hours of unpaid care, lence of Alzheimer’s and In Indiana, 235,114 care- other dementias in African
givers, provided 267.7 Americans and Hispanics
million hours of unpaid than in whites,
care for a loved one with •
Conditions such as
Alzheimer’s or other high blood pressure and
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, dementia, valued at almost' diabetes, which are known $4 billion. risk factors for - . , *£ »{ The new report also Alzheimer’s and other reveals that more than 40 dementias in all groups, percent of family care- are more common in givers rate the emotional African Americans and stress of care-giving as Hispanics than in whites, high or very high. • Although African Americans ; and/or
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Hispanics are more likely than whites to have Alzheimer’s and demen-
(t is estimated that as tia, they are less likely many as 30 percent of than whites to have a diagfamily caregivers have nosis of the condition, children or grandchildren • Delays in diagnosis under age 18 living at mean that Africanhome. Americans i and/or “The latest Facts and Hispanics are not getting
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