{"id":81187,"date":"2019-05-06T08:30:40","date_gmt":"2019-05-06T12:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=81187"},"modified":"2019-05-06T07:36:38","modified_gmt":"2019-05-06T11:36:38","slug":"usa-today-aging-baby-boomers-are-about-to-push-alzheimers-disease-rates-sky-high","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=81187","title":{"rendered":"(USA Today) Aging baby boomers are about to push Alzheimer&#8217;s disease rates sky high"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In her work, but also while visiting with her mom, Feldman considered the enormity of the Alzheimer&#8217;s problem: About 5.8 million Americans now have the disease, according to the Alzheimer&#8217;s Association. That number will climb to at least 13.8 million by 2050, a 138% rise, and as many as 1 in 3 people who live to be 85 in the United States will die with Alzheimer&#8217;s disease.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are really in an epidemic,&#8221; Feldman said, driven largely by baby boomers (those born between 1946 and 1964), who are growing older and coming to an age when the disease most commonly strikes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/nation\/2019\/05\/04\/alzheimers-disease-rates-rising-baby-boomers\/1106292001\/\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Alzheimer&#8217;s disease rates about to skyrocket as baby boomers age <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/s0Q6EGi3rU\">https:\/\/t.co\/s0Q6EGi3rU<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/alzheimer?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#alzheimer<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 GoodQuestion (@GQinterview) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GQinterview\/status\/1125329537670242304?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 6, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In her work, but also while visiting with her mom, Feldman considered the enormity of the Alzheimer&#8217;s problem: About 5.8 million Americans now have the disease, according to the Alzheimer&#8217;s Association. That number will climb to at least 13.8 million<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=81187\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[103,209,104,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aging-the-elderly","category-americau-s-a","category-health-medicine","category-middle-age"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=81187"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81190,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81187\/revisions\/81190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=81187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=81187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=81187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}