Is Alzheimer’s the Most Preventable Incurable Disease?

Right now nearly 6.5 million Americans age 65 and older are estimated to be living with Alzheimer’s, the most common type of dementia, and by 2050 that figure is projected to roughly double. Today, nearly half of older adults (those over age 67) die with or from Alzheimer’s or another form of dementia. The causes of Alzheimer’s are elusive. Both Alzheimer’s and related dementias (ADRDs) are linked to the aging brain, but aging is not the direct cause of either one. According to research, nearly two-thirds of the millions of Americans living with ADRDs are women. And while white people make up the majority of those with Alzheimer’s and dementia, African Americans are twice as likely as whites to have ADRDs. Learn more from OZY here.