The number of Californians with dementia is expected to reach 840,000 by 2025. Some treatments show promise, but efforts are clouded by fear and cost.
The costs of Alzheimer’s disease – human and financial – are rising sharply in California and nationally, and census projections for America’s rapidly aging population suggest the scope of the disease soon might rival what America saw during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic., released Wednesday, March 15, points to several ways that the disease is already reshaping American life:
Other data from the Alzheimer’s Association highlight different aspects of the disease and its social effects, from possible treatments to the physical and emotional toll on caregivers.It took about 13 months, give or take, for pharmaceutical companies and the government to come up with vaccines and treatments for COVID-19.
The reasons, according to those focus groups, range from ignorance about the disease to the belief that the risks of learning about the disease outweigh the benefits of treatment, to simple fear. Wade, a retired psychotherapist in Santa Clarita, and his sister-in-law provide care for his wife, who has seen her Alzheimer’s symptoms progress in the past year. Last year, about 11 million people nationally did something similar; by 2035 that number is likely to jump to 20 million or more.
The report found that for many Alzheimer’s caregivers – typically spouses, usually of a similar age, or adult children, who often have their own children to raise – the non-financial costs of caregiving can be high. Hemsworth learned about his genes through an expensive, rarely administered test. Some experts believe that if it were less expensive, and less rare, such testing might be a long-term game changer for Alzheimer’s care, if not a cure.
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