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An estimated 60% to 70% of people with cognitive impairment or dementia have sleep disturbances, according to a scientific article published in the journal Seminars Neurology.
[27] [4] It affects about 6% of people 65 years and older, [16] and women more often than men. [28] The disease is named after German psychiatrist and pathologist Alois Alzheimer, who first described it in 1906. [29] Alzheimer's financial burden on society is large, with an estimated global annual cost of US$1 trillion. [14]
Women face a 48% average risk and men have a 35% risk, with the discrepancy attributed to women living longer than men. Dementia cases in the U.S. are expected to double by 2060, with an estimated ...
Around 7% of people over the age of 65 have dementia, with slightly higher rates (up to 10% of those over 65) in places with relatively high life expectancy. [269] An estimated 58% of people with dementia are living in low and middle income countries.
Most research on memory and aging has focused on how older adults perform worse at a particular memory task. However, researchers have also discovered that simply saying that older adults are doing the same thing, only less of it, is not always accurate. In some cases, older adults seem to be using different strategies than younger adults.
Some 4% of U.S. adults aged 65 and older say they have been diagnosed with dementia, a rate that reached 13% for those at least 85-years old, according to a report of a national survey released on ...
[3] [4] Older people with certain medical conditions such as diabetes, heart disease and dementia, are also more likely to have frailty. [5] [6] In addition, adults living with frailty face more symptoms of anxiety and depression than those who do not. [7] Frailty is not an inevitable part of aging.
Older adults who have experienced a traumatic injury after a fall are 21 percent more likely to later receive a diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease or another related dementia, a new study indicates.