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Politics and Health CareVital Issues in the Fight Against Alzheimer’s DiseaseUnless a cure is found, by 2040 an estimated 14 million people will have Alzheimer’s disease. In our report, "Alzheimer’s: The Disease of the Century," we invited two leading experts to discuss the history of scientific research and the burden of caregiving for those afflicted with Alzheimer’s disease. Dr. Stan I. Rapoport, chief of the brain physiology and the metabolism section at the National Institute on Aging, presents a brief history of the progress that has been made in our understanding of the disease. “Research in the past three decades has clarified many of the mechanisms of Alzheimer’s disease compared with healthy brain aging and other neurodegenerative diseases,” says Dr. Rapoport. “But we do not as yet know which therapy or combination of therapies might be most effective in preventing or treating the disease.”
Caregiving Issues Dramatically CompoundedRapoport further notes that the broad array of issues as part of elder care is dramatically compounded in the typical caregiving scenarios occurring during the course of decline in individuals afflicted with Alzheimer’s disease and that communications with the cognitively impaired call for extraordinary skills that most caregivers are unlikely to possess. To learn more, click on our Related Links, below. Back
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