NIA 2012-2013 Alzheimer's Disease Progress Report

Even as we search for answers, an aging America must contend with the dire financial and societal impacts of age-related dementia.

The passage of the National Alzheimer’s Project Act (NAPA) in 2011 focused a national effort to find treatments and support people with dementia and their caregivers.

As a result, the National Plan to Address Alzheimer’s Disease, announced in 2012 and updated in 2013, provides a cohesive, national plan to move research forward, provide better clinical care, and improve services for people with the disease and their families.

Memory Types Affected in Alzheimer's

Normal aging leads to changes in the brain, especially in areas involved in learning and memory.

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Alzherimer's Reading Room

How Alzheimer's Affects Memory

The different memory systems -- episodic, semantic, procedural, and working -- involve multiple areas of the brain.

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Should Women Be Worried about Alzheimer's ?

Current statistical studies indicate that at age 80, there is a one in five chance of suffering from Alzheimer's disease (20 out of 100).

At age 85, the odds rise to one out of every two (50 out of 100). I call this the Alzheimer's danger zone.

It is well known that women live longer than men. But, I don't think it is well known that healthy women live much longer than healthy men, and live into the Alzheimer's danger zone.

Women who reach the age of fifty without suffering from cancer or heart disease can expect to live nearly ninety-two years (92).**

Men who live to age sixty-five without suffering from cancer or heart disease, can expect to live to eighty-one (81).